Database Systems for Humanities — Scripture Retrieval and Genealogical Visualization —

Abstract

The documents and scriptures in the possession of temples are a key to making clear the transcription of the writings, the human relationships and the religious circumstances behind them, by means of the colophons that state the background of themselves. We have been developing the applications for supporting the activities of humane studies. In this paper, we introduce a scripture retrieval system powered by the full-text search engine Hyper Estraier, and an improved version of genealogical visualization system which allows any priest to have more than one master in a genealogical table. In addition the prospect of the cooperation between these two applications is discussed.