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Dao Fa Hui Yuan, is an important resource for the study of Daoism. It is a compilation of a number of Fus used in Daoism. A Fu is expressed as a complex graphical symbol composed of one or more constituent parts. This paper presents the Dao Fa Hui Yuan digital archive named Digital DFHY which is designed to help researchers explore relationships among sacred symbols of yet unknown meaning and associated natural language text. Some of the descriptions of Fus in DFHY include only the name and the graphic expression of a Fu, and others include descriptions of the constituent parts of a Fu in addition to its name and graphic expression. This paper describes the Digital DFHY, and how it can be used with a network analysis tool to identify relationships among the Fus and their constituent parts.
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Feng, X., Matsumoto, K., Sugimoto, S. (2011). Digital Archive “Dao Fa Hui Yuan” for Daoism Research. In: Xing, C., Crestani, F., Rauber, A. (eds) Digital Libraries: For Cultural Heritage, Knowledge Dissemination, and Future Creation. ICADL 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7008. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24826-9_7
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