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Nasevich V. —
The Future of Historians in the “Digital Turn” Circumstances
// Historical informatics.
– 2019. – № 3.
– P. 90 - 98.
DOI: 10.7256/2585-7797.2019.3.30767 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=30767
The Future of Historians in the “Digital Turn” Circumstances
Nasevich Vyachaslau
PhD in History
Director, Belarus Online Documentation Research Center
220141, Belarus, g. Minsk, ul. Frantsiska Skoriny, 51
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v.nosevich@gmail.com
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DOI: 10.7256/2585-7797.2019.3.30767
Review date:
10-09-2019
Publish date:
21-11-2019
Abstract: The article focuses on plausible consequences of mass digitization of historical sources and the emergence of new types of sources such as integrated information resources, archives of online publications and big data. It also gives examples of new research methods application which correspond to digital information specifics. The author evaluates the impact of these factors on three groups of persons related to historical science. These are professional historians, specialists who prepare sources for publication and history popularizers. The possible impact of the "digital turn" on the mass audience is addressed as well. To evaluate plausible consequences of ongoing transformations in history the author uses experience of similar changes which characterized transition to mass archaeographic publications of sources. The main conclusion is the inevitable change of emphasis in history that is the reduced role of professional historians and popularizers and the growing importance of specialists who criticize sources and prepare them for publication. Another conclusion is the advent of discussion communities in social networks where members consider direct historical facts and offer their own interpretations ignoring conclusions of professional historians.
Keywords:
online publication, big data, information resource, digitization, archeography, source study, historical source, paleo-DNA, digital forensics, artificial intelligence
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