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Libraly Journal ›› 2022, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (9): 105-112.

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Research on the Construction of the Knowledge Graph of Newspapers in the Republic of China Period from the Perspective of Digital Humanities

Shen Wang, Chen Jiuyu, Pan Mengya (School of Business and Management, Jilin University)   

  • Online:2021-09-15 Published:2022-09-22
  • About author:Shen Wang, Chen Jiuyu, Pan Mengya (School of Business and Management, Jilin University)

Abstract: As an information carrier of the history of the Republic of China period, newspapers have a high value in humanistic research. The hidden history and culture of the Republic of China period, in particular, are the hotspots in academic circles. However, the construction and development of newspapers of the Republic of China period by most collection agencies is only at the digital stage, yet to reach the stage of mining and application. This research is based on the modern Chinese newspaper database—the modern newspaper database, which focuses on the content characteristics and external characteristics of the newspapers of the Republic of China period, and combines the metadata characteristics of the database with the characteristics of news events to construct the ontology of the newspapers of the Republic of China period. Using Mei Lanfang, the Peking Opera master, as the empirical research subject, it adopts Gephi visualization tools to construct the knowledge graph of the newspaper of the Republic of China on Mei Lanfang. From perspectives of Mei Lanfang’s cultural diplomacy, charity performance, and repertoire performance in the Republic of China period, it analyzes Mei Lanfang’s achievements recorded in the newspapers of the period so to realize knowledge mining of the legendary figure.