A Database System of Buddhist Canons
Takehiko Tanaka, Yohei Nino, Rong Zhang, Martin Rolland, Masaru Nakagawa, Susumu Aoki, Keigo Utsunomiya, Toshinori Ochiai · Joint Conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering · 2006
Buddhist scriptures written in Chinese several hundred ago are in the possession of temples in Japan. To make use of the contents for Buddhist study and archeology, we have ever made the comparative tables with acknowledged catalogues and taken shot images of the scripture using digital cameras. Those shot images are sometimes unreadable due to degradation, or one takes lots of trouble with combining the images. In this paper, we focus on the database for assisting the reading. Since the correspondence of the scriptures between Buddhist canons or the possessions in temples is available in the database, we can easily use well-maintained text files for our shot images. We also introduce the processors for eliminating redundant part of shot images and text data, together with the viewer which enables us to read the seamless image and its text simultaneously. It is possible for the database to accept enormous image and text files, interested people, and agents for the reading support.