This article analyses the reasons why current manuscript databases provide unsatisfying results about a codex’s historical layers and why they fall short when scanned for data with a date limit. It links this primarily to the fact that the data model (how the information is organized internally) and the description model (how the information is organized in the description presented to the users) are too closely and rigidly aligned. It advocates for developing a new model that would first allow users to define and save their own structural and historical interpretation of a codex, and use this when displaying or searching manuscripts. Secondly, users should be able to select the description model according to which manuscript information is displayed, including new and more detailed description models.

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迈向描述古代手稿的新一代数据库和数据库应用程序

本文分析了当前手稿数据库提供的关于法典历史层的结果不令人满意的原因，以及在扫描有日期限制的数据时这些结果不足的原因。它将这主要与数据模型（信息如何在内部组织）和描述模型（信息如何在呈现给用户的描述中组织）过于紧密和严格对齐的事实联系起来。它提倡开发一种新模型，首先允许用户定义和保存他们自己对法典的结构和历史解释，并在显示或搜索手稿时使用它。其次，用户应该能够选择显示稿件信息的描述模型，包括新的和更详细的描述模型。