鳥瞰臺灣方志:以物產、職官為初探對象

Abstract

方志，記述一地方情況的史志。臺灣方志，顧名思義便是記載臺灣各個地方中所存在的人、事、時、地、物等重要記錄書。方志中所記載的內容可說是五花八門，門類繁富，每一本方志都隱藏了編輯者的思想邏輯與個人特性於其中。 本論文將探討在1685~1898年代間出版的23本方志。在方志眾多的門類下，針對職官與物產兩大類進行資料分析與整理。首先會介紹此兩大類在方志中的結構，職官結構：人名、官名、職稱、出身、籍貫、任前來歷、任期、去向。物產結構：物產分類、物產中所收錄的各式物種。 進一步將說明對結構的解讀與拆解，最後則是舉例說明對方志內容相關應用。除了保留方志的原內容外，還會將內容中常見的資訊做歸納，進一步儲存為詮釋資料（metadata），讓資料的檢索方式更彈性，呈現的方式更多樣化。 論文中嘗試藉由不同於一般傳統檢索的呈現方式，來觀察方志裡原先不容易得到或是需要耗費工時才能取得的結果，在將統整出來的結果，以嶄新的面貌呈現，讓觀察的觸角能朝更多的方向延伸。

A local gazetteer is a book that describes the government, economy, commodities, environment, people, etc of a place. It is perhaps the most important form of reference book for a region in Chinese history. In this thesis we analyzed the officials and local produces contained in 23 Taiwanese gazetteers, written between 1685 and 1898. For the officials, we studied the patterns and extracted, automatically, information such as the person’s name, the title, dates of assuming and leaving the office, the position that person had before taking this office and the one after (if any), place of birth, scholarly title held, etc. For the produce we analyzed the categories as given in each book, the items in each category, and the relationships among the different books in the categories and their contents. In addition to presenting the original contents in the gazetteers, our work provides a different way to compare them and to analyze them.