本文從數位人文的個人化角度,探討DocuSky對於詮釋資料(metadata)在人文研究歷程中的設計及運用。不僅考量資訊技術的規範,也思考metadata在人文研究歷程各階段的串接運用,更重要的是介紹研究者如何依據自己的研究需求、自己的研究材料,研擬、編寫metadata,並自主建庫的數位人文研究取徑。在本文中,以佛教石刻題記材料為例,說明研究者如何運用DocuSky平臺上的工具,將metadata的概念與學者的日常學術活動結合,進而使研究者更能掌握自己的研究材料與進程,有利於發掘研究議題的多元視角與多重脈絡。透過對metadata的設計與運用,DocuSky提供給研究者一個探索材料、積累發現與再發現的數位人文研究方法。於此之中,metadata不再僅是資訊組織的專業概念,或是為了查找相應文件的二次資訊,而是研究者在研究過程中賦予研究材料意義與智慧的產出。
This paper deals with the functionality that DocuSky offers to enhance the design and application of metadata when the studies of humanities are being researched within this platform. It concerns not only technical protocols but also the utilization during the procedure of humantic studies. More importantly, this paper would like to demonstrate the approach to compose a metadata and construct a personal database correspondent to scholars' needs basing on their raw materials. As a demonstration, Buddhist inscriptions are employed to elaborate the usage of tools offered by DocuSky. This demonstration further reveals the integration of academic events and the practice of composing metadata. By means of these tools, scholars may be easier to research within diverse perspectives and contexts. DocuSky provides the digital approaches and concepts for the study of humanities as digital humanities. Metadata in this platform is no longer a professional concept attributed to information organization or secondary information for data retrieving, but the intellectual property resulted from the procedure of research as well as the meaning endued by researchers.