The New Historical Research Possibilities from Digitization Projects:A Cross-referencing Research Example of Taiwan Relic Rubbings and Tan-Hsin Archive

本文運用臺灣大學「臺灣文獻文物典藏數位化計畫」建置的資料庫，就臺灣古拓本與《淡新檔案》中的特定案例，進行相互參照的研究。臺灣大學圖書館典藏豐富，其中的古碑拓本涵蓋行政、建設、宗教、民俗等主題，資料型式為單件；《淡新檔案》為清代北臺灣的淡水廳、臺北府及新竹縣的地方行政及司法文書，資料型式為多份單件構成一個案件。該批此二種不同來源之史料產生時空環境相近，二者為研究上的相輔相成素材。然因拓本資料原件尺寸偏大，不便利用；而《淡新檔案》數量龐大，僅利用複製紙本或微縮資料，亦不易找出特定事件之相關案件。臺灣大學圖書館將此二種資料典藏數位化並建置資料庫之後，透過於資料庫中的搜尋，很容易可以比對出各資料群中關於相同事件之史料，而促成參照利用不同的史料進行研究之可能。本文擇一臺灣古碑拓本的「嚴禁自盡圖賴碑記」之例，透過整理《淡新檔案》中的相關公文案卷，重建當時臺灣地方政府的行政程序，並探討「自盡圖賴」事件背後所反映的社會意義。作者進一步為臺灣古碑拓本與《淡新檔案》等二種清季臺灣文獻，勾勒參照性比對研究的其他可能，將臺灣大學典藏的古碑拓本，逐一對照《淡新檔案》可能相關的類目，載於文末附錄，以供研究者參考。This research was conducted by using the database established under the Digital Archives Project on Taiwan Historical Collections of National Taiwan University. The authors took a special case ”Forbidden of Suicide in Fraud of Others” which appeared in both the Taiwan University's rubbings collection and the Tan-Hsin Archive as an example, and demonstrated how cross-referencing use of these two collections could help to uncover some historical problems of the Taiwan society and the solutions from the government. The monumental stone rubbings, mostly single autonomous items, depict various aspects such as politics, social development, religion, customs and culture of the early Taiwan society. The Tan-Hsin Archive, on the other hand, is significant in having series of documents concerning a single event happened in the old Taiwan society. As these two collections have similar spatial and geographic coverage, the Tan-Hsin Archive could serve as supplements to the rubbings for doing research on the subjects described in the relic rubbings. However, the rubbings are mostly over-sized documents and not easy to provide for use. The Tan-Hsin Archive contains a tremendous amount of documents, therefore, it is difficult to retrieve documents concerning a definite topic by using microfilms or duplicates of the originals. Now that database of these two collections is available, it is possible to easily retrieve documents concerning the same event from these two collections. As a result, it enables cross-referencing use of these first-hand historical resources. The paper hopes to initiate new research possibilities based on the rubbings and encourage in-dept research from referencing use of Tan-Hsin Archive. In addition, the authors made an approximately corresponding topical map of these two collections from subject analysis, adding it as an appendix of this article for researchers' reference