Engineering a Scalable Digital Humanities Knowledge Graph for 130+ Zen Classics with Next.js 14 & D3.js
Engineering a Scalable Digital Humanities Knowledge Graph for 130+ Zen Buddhist Classics with Next.js 14 & D3.js When preserving and exploring classical philosophical canons, traditional digitized archives often suffer from fragmented flat texts, clunky navigation, and poor contextual interlinking. Over the past few months, we designed and built ChanZong Knowledge Base (chanzong.space) , a modern…
The article discusses the creation of a digital humanities platform called ChanZong Knowledge Base, which indexes over 130 Zen Buddhist scriptures and related philosophical concepts. The challenge of visualizing the dense networks of concepts and historical masters led to the development of a multi-stage equilibrium simulation using D3.js v7.
This simulation addresses issues such as hairball problems, continuous jitter, and search latency. The platform also features Next.js 14 App Router with automated Simplified/Traditional Chinese dual-track routing, ensuring SEO indexation and smooth transitions. A strict taxonomy schema maintains a zero-dangling-reference network, preventing broken links across the vast collection of interconnected entities.
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