실크로드 문화지도 DB 구축 성과와 전망

Abstract

This paper is mainly concerned with the results, limits, and sharing methods of Building Databases for Mapping the Silk Road Culture. First, we built Text DB which contains cultural elements of main Silk Road cities as the type of XML(eXtensible Markup Language) documents. We used lots of available historical sources written in numerous languages. Also, we built a database for bibliographical notes of those sources. Second, we collected various historical names of main Silk Road cities and developed as a DB. Third, to produce digitalized cultural maps, it was needed to make Current Base Map containing present geographical and administrative information. Then, the project team worked on Historical Base Map that provides historical and spatial-temporal data. Furthermore, we produced Cultural Thematic Maps about religions, languages, foods, etc. Lastly, we are devising a method to share our research outputs through the web site. This project was intended to build databases for mapping Silk Road culture. We believe those databases have high values and good possibilities by themselves. Although we faced lots of problems and errors working on this project, we focused on setting and providing framework for further research. With more studies and support, the goal to map the Silk Road culture could be achieved.