Analysis on Research Status and Development Trend of Digitization of Ancient TCM Books
Objective To explore the research hotspots and trend of digitization of ancient TCM books.Methods The research literature about digitization of ancient TCM books was retrieved from CNKI from January 1,1996 to September 7,2023.Excel 2019 software was used to analyze the publication time of the included literature,and CiteSpace 6.2R7 software was used to analyze the research institution,keyword co-occurrence and keyword timeline.The digital situation of TCM ancient books in the libraries of 16 TCM university was analyzed by means of network investigation.Results A total of 486 articles were included,and the number of published papers showed a trend of first increasing and then decreasing.It involved 221 research institutions,mainly represented by the libraries of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences,Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine,Beijing University of Chinese Medicine,and Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine.It involved 481 keywords,with the high-frequency keywords of data mining,ancient books protection,ancient books collation,literature research and so on.It was found that there were some problems in the digitization of ancient TCM books,such as lack of cooperation among units and insufficient digitization degree.Conclusion The digitization research of ancient TCM books is good on the whole,but there is still a lot of room for development in the technical level.The follow-up research should strengthen the basic technology research of digitization of ancient TCM books and strengthen the cooperation among various collection units.
TCM ancient booksdigitizationdigital humanitiesCiteSpacevisualization analysis