"Digital history is the use of digital media to further historical analysis, presentation, and research."
This young field uses digital tools and methods to study, analyze, and present historical events and data.
Data Management: Managing different types of historical data using appropriate software.
Data Visualization: Creating visuals such as graphs, charts, and maps to better understand and explain historical data.
Text Analysis: Analyzing large amounts of text using software for patterns and trends.
Geospatial Analysis: Using geographic information systems (GIS) to analyze spatial patterns in historical data.
Digital Archives and Libraries: Creating and managing digital collections of historical materials.
Digital Humanities: Using technology to enhance and expand the study of humanities fields such as history.
Digital Preservation: Ensuring that digital historical materials are properly maintained and accessible for future generations.
Web Design and Development: Creating and managing websites to present and share historical information.
Social Media: Using social media platforms to share historical information and engage with the public.
Copyright and Intellectual Property: Understanding the laws and regulations related to the use and distribution of historical materials.
"It is a branch of the digital humanities and an extension of quantitative history, cliometrics, and computing."
"Digital history is commonly digital public history, concerned primarily with engaging online audiences with historical content, or, digital research methods, that further academic research."
"Digital history outputs include: digital archives, online presentations, data visualizations, interactive maps, timelines, audio files, and virtual worlds to make history more accessible to the user."
"Recent digital history projects focus on creativity, collaboration, and technical innovation, text mining, corpus linguistics, network analysis, 3D modeling, and big data analysis."
"By utilizing these resources, the user can rapidly develop new analyses that can link to, extend, and bring to life existing histories."
"Digital public history is concerned primarily with engaging online audiences with historical content."
"Digital research methods further academic research in digital history."
"To make history more accessible to the user."
"Different outputs such as online presentations, data visualizations, interactive maps, timelines, audio files, and virtual worlds can be employed to make history more accessible."
"Recent digital history projects focus on creativity, collaboration, and technical innovation, text mining, corpus linguistics, network analysis, 3D modeling, and big data analysis."
"These resources allow for the rapid development of new analyses that can link to, extend, and bring existing histories to life."
"Digital history is an extension of quantitative history."
"Digital history is an extension of computing."
"Methods such as text mining, corpus linguistics, network analysis, 3D modeling, and big data analysis are employed in digital history projects."
"Digital public history focuses on engaging online audiences with historical content."
"Digital history utilizes digital media and research methods to further historical analysis, while traditional history may not utilize these resources."
"Digital archives provide a valuable resource for historians to access and analyze historical content."
"Digital history projects utilize tools such as data visualization, text mining, network analysis, and 3D modeling."
"To further historical analysis, presentation, and research through the use of digital media."