China News Service, Henan Anyang, March 23 (Wang Yu) Anyang, Henan, the hometown of Oracle, will launch the "Global Oracle Digital Revitalization Plan" to give this ancient script more new life through the empowerment of digital technology.
Zhang Zhan, director of the Oracle Bone Script Recognition and Analysis Research Office of the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Oracle Bone Script Information Processing at Henan Anyang Normal University (hereinafter referred to as the laboratory), logged into the "Yin Qi Wenyuan" website and selected the Oracle Bone Script "burn" in the glyph library. , all oracle bone tablet information containing this glyph is displayed.
On March 14, at the Key Laboratory of Oracle Information Processing of the Ministry of Education at Anyang Normal University, staff demonstrated an oracle-bone display and activation applet based on augmented reality technology. Photo by Wang Yu
In 2019, the Oracle big data platform "Yin Qi Wenyuan" built by the laboratory, which integrates Oracle text library, description library and literature library, was opened to the world. Currently, the website has included 153 types of oracle bone descriptions, more than 239,000 oracle bone images, and more than 33,000 types of oracle bone treatises.
"'Yin Qi Wenyuan' will start the fifth phase of construction in the near future." Zhang Zhan said that according to the plan, basic data will continue to be supplemented and AI technology will be used for data analysis.
Affected by formation pressure, water infiltration, excavation and turning, many oracle bones have fractured, posing challenges to the research of oracle bone inscriptions. Zhang Zhan said that digital technology can be used to restore oracle bone fragments based on their shape and existing oracle bone inscriptions, and combine them to decipher the oracle bone inscriptions.
"This oracle bone inscription is like a TV set with two ears. It represents a 'lamp' and is a form of sacrifice..." Zhang Zhan showed reporters a set of oracle bone inscriptions that were deciphered through digital technology. According to him, the laboratory has assembled 70 sets of oracle bone fragments, ranking first in China in number.
On March 14, at the Key Laboratory of Oracle Information Processing of the Ministry of Education of Anyang Normal University, staff demonstrated Oracle digital conjugation technology to reporters. Photo by Wang Yu
In addition, the laboratory also extracted 1.43 million glyphs from more than 200,000 oracle bone rubbings, and based on this, developed the "search for pictures by word" technology to achieve the retrieval and location of traces of target glyphs on all rubbings.
As the algorithm designer of the "search for pictures by words" technology, Li Bang, director of Oracle's Big Data Analysis Research Office, told reporters that the technology is still in the testing stage and will be officially launched in the near future.
More than 120 years ago, a piece of oracle bones shocked the world. At present, about 160,000 pieces of oracle bone inscriptions have been unearthed and collected in many places around the world.
"Oracle Bones have become a 'messenger' for the world to understand Chinese civilization. Unfortunately, it is impossible to bring the physical objects together for research." Liu Yongge, director of the laboratory, said that they have proposed a "Global Oracle Digital Revitalization Plan" that will be launched in May this year. Officially launched, data collection will be carried out through high-definition shooting, macro shooting, three-dimensional modeling, etc., and the physical oracle bones stored at home and abroad will be restored and protected in digital space with high fidelity.
At present, the "Global Oracle Digital Revitalization Plan" has started a pilot. It plans to collect data from Anyang Museum, Tianjin Museum and French collection institutions within this year. It is also communicating with collection institutions in the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Belgium and Sweden. , data collection will be carried out in due course.
"The 'Oracle fever' has arrived, but there are still many unsolved mysteries. I believe that with digital empowerment, more wonderful stories from three thousand years ago will be deciphered." Liu Yongge said. (over)