The Ideal Model And Related Issues Of The Digitization Of Ancient Chinese Medicine Research

As the information tide sweeping across all over the world, the methods for people to obtain and utilize information have big changes, the traditional research of TCM documents on the basis of paper documents also confront big challenges. The digitalization of TCM ancient books becomes an urgent task for present TCM documentary scholars. Even though up to now there are some digital TCM ancient books, but also a lot of problems, just because of technique reason or without the participation of TCM documentary scholars, so it's necessary to research it further and deeply.With professional insight of TCM document research, this subject investigates present digital TCM ancient books, concretely analyzes the ideal pattern of digital TCM ancient books, discusses in detail all the relative content problems (catalogue select, edition, collation, auxiliary data and so on) and technique problems (character set, operating system, input, retrieve, display, output, internet support and so on ) and the relationship between those, make it clear that content problems dominate all the work of digitalization of TCM ancient books, at first time put forward the conception of "digital ancient rare edition", and we think it exactly summarizes the ideal pattern of digital ancient books.It's desirable to provide scientific and responsible guidance for the digitalization of TCM ancient books by the discussion and research in this subject, and then figure out correct direction for the work of digitalization of TCM ancient books, promote it's development and progress.