한국 유교 디지털 아카이브 구축 현황과 제언

Abstract

Due to the COVID-19, digital became an important keyword as experiencing untact culture, and in July 2020, the Korean government presented the Digital New Deal as a keyword of the post-Corona era while explaining the Korean version of the New Deal. Today, when digital has become a keyword in each field, this paper explores the current status and challenges of Confucian digital archives with a sense of problem that the achievements that have already been built to suit digital culture in each field should be reviewed. Since the digitalization of Korea’s classical literature was crried out as one of the ways to overcome the 1997 national financial crisis and the so-called “IMF”, various digital archives have been established in the Confucian field. This paper examines the current status of the project of “Korean Confucian Classics Database,” established by Compilation Center for Korean Confucian Classics at Sung Kyun Kwan University and the project of “the Korean Confucian Classics Data System.” Moreover, this paper explores the Ugyonet of the Korean Studies Institute and the digital archive of the World Confucian Culture Museum of Andong City, as a form of knowledge information archive related to Confucianism. The scope of Korean Confucianism covered by these Confucian digital archive projects encompasses academic research, philosophy, religion, culture, tradition, and tourism. This shows that Confucianism has various meanings in Korea, but the projects titled Confucianism are bound to diversify into various frames because of financial issues. This paper explores the reality of this Confucian digital archive construction project, and at the same time offers suggestions for a more advanced future. In the case of Confucian database, which can be lost forever if its website is closed due to budget problems, it is necessary to have a system that can recognize it as a digital cultural heritage and preserve it at the national level. It is also needed to link data between Confucian digital archive construction institutions and establish a cooperative system, and build archives in various ways in consideration of user needs.