A Data Model for Reconstructable Kanji Documents using XML

Libraries have promoted classic literature as digital document that are difficult to be displayed in their original forms. These digital documents are now accessed through the Internet. However, such digital documents are available for reading only, not for citing nor editing. In this paper, we propose a data model for users to extract and edit digital documents from a digital library. The proposed model makes it possible to flexibly retrieve documents as well as to edit information by integrated managing of documents displayed as images or texts by XML. It also provides a method to cut a part of documents and paste it in an area of prototype systems, which is examined whether users can operate cut and paste using digital kanji documents.