When reading descriptions of medicinal processing in the Donguibogam, the name of an ingredient does not capture everything a passage says. The operation being described and its textual context also matter. Can that connection to the source survive when the passage becomes data?
I designed a model that represents processing narratives as events. The question goes beyond collecting words: how can a procedure described in prose be represented as data while retaining a route back to the text from which that representation came?
Keep a connection between the passage and the data
An event here is a record representing an operation described in the source. Prose is read as connected sentences, while data is organized into a defined structure. Moving between them involves interpretation. A data record alone may not show which passage supports that interpretation.
I therefore structured the metadata alongside the model. Metadata is information that describes the data itself. Here it concerns the connection between an event representation and its documentary basis. Being able to return from a record to the passage makes the representation available for reconsideration.
After designing the text-to-event model, I organized the metadata and validation records into a manuscript. The purpose of retaining validation records is to make it possible to revisit how the text was represented, rather than leave only a table of outputs. The detailed model and validation findings remain for an account after publication.
Editorial receipt acknowledged
The progress ledger consolidated on 3 September 2026 records an editorial acknowledgement of receipt on 1 September. The work was awaiting the subsequent editorial process. Receipt is not completion of peer review or acceptance for publication.
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The central concern is the connection that lets the source be read again after data has been created. An event-based structure should provide a way to examine textual context, not replace that context.