ThakBong is a digital archive of gravesites in Taiwan, China and places where Chinese settlers have moved to, e.g. Hong Kong, Hawaii, the US Mainland, France and Italy.

此研究計畫目標為透過電腦化分析、數據的觀察，來探討台灣人的文化、自我認同。我們將建立一個以三萬筆台灣墓碑資料為基礎的語料庫，其涵蓋年代跨越許多時期從1800年到2005年。此研究除了針對人類語言學的議題討論，也跨足許多其他領域，包含電腦語言學、語料庫語言學、數位資料保存以及心理語言學。

On 739 graveyard visits, we took 145.390 photos, representing 38.870 tombs. The sampling of graveyards tries to approximate ethnic and regional proportions of the census held 1956 in Taiwan. The relation of sampling and census is shown in a number of graphs.

自從人類學成立以來，墳墓研究即為該領域的一個研究重心，因為它突顯了包含庶民文化、宗教信仰，及政治組織等多種人類生活的面向。近來，透過數位革命，及由此革命研伸而出的衛星定位科技及和便宜、方便的數位資訊儲存方式，墳墓研究更是獲得了長足的進步。大規模的數位墳墓資料庫之建立已勢在必行。在台灣，此類研究即在本團隊之數墓計畫得到展現：在過去數年間739個工作天的實地田野調查，透過數位相機及衛星定位系統，我們已探訪了將近38.870座墳墓，拍攝了超過145.390張照片，並以此為基礎建立了一個龐大的數位資料庫。在此資料庫中，我們所註記的內容包括下列各項顯而易見的特徵：墓碑上所刻之文字(如地名及人名)、符號、圖像，及墳墓週邊的物件(如祭品)等等。另外也紀載其他需經由推斷才能得知的特徵，例如逝者的年齡、性別，及種族等等。最後，我們替這些紀錄下來的特徵建立數種統計模型，進而推算出相對應的數值 關於數墓資料庫之詳細內容。

• Linda GAIL ARRIGO.
• Yoann GOUDIN.
• Jimmy HUANG,
• Ann Meifang LIN,
• Oliver STREITER,
• Sandy Ko-jui YEN,

Imprecise Measure of Altitude

Calculating Slope and Direction of Tomb from Altitude of Surrounding Tombs

Correcting Position

Tackling Fengshui with GPS (slope, altitude, visible area)

墓碑除代表個人的記憶認同，也能整體的顯現社會的認同、語言、習俗與工藝的傳承。然而基於社會與氣候因素，台灣當今的墓碑卻戲劇性地大量消失；為了保存墓碑上所顯現的豐富文化遺產，我們於2007年開始了ThakBong的計畫，其計畫主旨為，將台灣豐富的墓碑建檔數位化，其資料的保存為跨族群、跨宗教、跨區域、跨階級，甚至是橫跨台灣歷史年代的。此數位建檔基本上使用地理資訊系統以保留其地理位置資訊，以及TEI-相同的XML系統將其墓碑刻字以及墳墓狀況以文字註解建檔成資料庫，而此資料庫將做為研究、教學，以及典藏用途。

In Taiwan, tombstones older than 60 years are getting rare or difficult to decipher. Factors responsible for this are the urban development, social changes, the price for land, religious practices, as well as climatic and geological conditions on the island. As tombs are disappearing at an astonishing pace, there exists the urgent need for documentation of this part of Taiwan's cultural heritage.

• Number of Photos: 145.390
• Number of Gravesites: 465
• Number of Tombs: 38.870
• Number of Tombstones: 39.810
• Center of Gravity: Taiwan, Jiayixian, Dalinzhen, 7th public graveyard
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The archive is stored in a vault of a former bank in the USA. Walls, ceilings and floors are made of thick steel-reinforced concrete.
In addition, about 10.000 photos annotated with Dublin Core metadata have be stored and backed up in the TELDAP Digital Archive.

Copyright Issues

The XML-data and the images in the database are by and by released under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Generic (en) (zh-TW) as soon as the images have been properly processed and the XML-data reach a certain level of representativity and a minimal annotation. Photos and Data released under this CC license are listed here: Distributed photos, data with copyright specifications. For attribution please cite the following article:
Streiter, Goudin, Lin (2008), Building a Corpus in Linguistic Anthropology: The Example of ThakBong , Workshop on the relationship between the Distribution of Languages or Dialects in Taiwan and Racial Migration, Taipeh 2008-12-27, Academia Sinica.

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