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and storytelling: paths and methods of archives research on the perspective of digital humanities

Figure 4. Summary of the main story structure of archival data applications

The domain perspective includes three mainstream narrative structures: time, space and theme.
Among them, the time narrative can be divided into three sub-events: “beginning”, “middle” and
“end”, suitable for the generation of linear file stories with simple plots; spatial narrative includes
point structure, line structure and hierarchical structure from top to bottom and can be used for
archival data narrative organization at different time points or time periods in the same space;
thematic narrative is an inverse linear structure, which uses the internal themes of complex events
as the basis for carding event lines, suitable for storytelling on archival data with many memory
entities that can be clustered into different themes.
Correspondingly, in the story structure divided from the perspective of morphology, the
relationship between different clues of the chain structure is interrelated and inseparable, which
is suitable for archival data storytelling with a same common emotional main clue and multiple