With the Internet Revoltion, the rapid digitizaion of various infomations is also opening the new page in the Humanity Science. The area 01 old records arid documents is not an exception. Above all, the old records and documents are to be arranged. ...
With the Internet Revoltion, the rapid digitizaion of various infomations is also opening the new page in the Humanity Science. The area 01 old records arid documents is not an exception. Above all, the old records and documents are to be arranged. and during that process and work. the standard is necessary other words, the standardization of old records and documensts in digital age is needed. This paper focuscs on the standardzation of old records and documensts in digital age. At first, we investigated the digitazation samples which are processed or processing, and find out some problems in the view of the standardization. The classification system is not systematic, and moreover the classification is riot accorded to the unified way or pattern. In spite of the same web site, we can see another fonns of old records and documents. It is clue to the different classification and arrangement. Therefore it is necessary to make some standards and principles of the classification system and arrangement cards of old records and documents. We can see it. as the first step to the digitazation. The works carried out by the standardized classificaion and rearrangement cards can provide unified and standardized information service. Besides, we can acquire necessary information casily and in various ways. We can think the standarization in two lebels, namely l) the standarization of old records and documents thernselves. and 2)the standarization of technics or technical lebel. Of course, this paper deal with the second, the tehnical aspects of digitization. We can summarize the contents as follows. l) Unicode, IS0 10646 1 UCS(Universal Multiple Octet Coded Character Set) is useful. And we should pay special attention to the Chinese characters. 2)We have better to follow, XML(eXtensible Markup Language). It can offer structure web service proper to the materials. 3)Metadata is necessary and useful for the various information research and application practices. 4)Thesaurus is necessary. and it can provide the standard of operation of synonyms. si?nilar words, and concerned terms. 5)Hypertext is necessary and useful. We can see the original image of old records and documents through image files. In order to procede the digitization work efficiently, the continuous dialougue and coopration between the scholars, the concerned associations, and digization specialists are necessary. They will make the digitization more relevent one.