The Impacts of Digital Humanities on Archival Community in China: Challenges, Opportunities and Countermeasures
LONG Jiaqing1, WANG Yujue2, LI Zilin1, XU Jiaxin2
1. School of Information Resource Management, Renmin University of China,Beijing l00872; 2. School of Information Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072
Abstract: Digital humanities is the wisdom of the integration and development of digital technology with humanities and social sciences, which has a certain impact and reflection on the archival field with the research theme of historical culture and social memory. By understanding the meaning of digital humanities, and clarifying the relationship between archives work and digital humanities, it is found that the digital humanities infrastructure in the archives field is weak, the archives business practice needs to be expanded, the archives digital humanities education needs to be improved, and the supporting incentive policies are insufficient. Simultaneously, it recognizes the opportunities brought by digital humanities for archival work Innovate the thinking mode of archives work, build the advantages of digital humanities archives storage, identify and analyze archives resources for digital humanities, and provide more rich and innovative archives services. In the aspects of archives infrastructure construction, disciplinary system development, collection resource integration, integration project services and development and publicity benefits, relevant selection suggestions are proposed to enhance the academic and social concerns about digital humanities projects in the archives field.
LONG Jiaqing, WANG Yujue, LI Zilin, XU Jiaxin. The Impacts of Digital Humanities on Archival Community in China: Challenges, Opportunities and Countermeasures. Archives Science Study, 2020, 34(1): 104-110.