Digital Humanities: to a question of the directions and prospects of development of interdisciplinarity in humanitarian researches and education

Abstract

In this work the results of the research on Digital Humanities (DH) as interdisciplinary field of researches are presented, the main digitalization directions of the humanities in the modern world are defined. The empirical material was built and verified, on which base 323 scientific and educational structures positioning themselves in the field of DH in Europe, Asia, North and South America, Australia and Oceania are revealed. Organizational forms and infrastructure of researches in the field of DH in the leading world centers are studied. The analysis of the key directions in researches and development in the field of DH is carried out. The quantitative analysis of basic data was made. As a result of analysis 46 main activities of DH centers are revealed, which are localized on the world map: http://huminf.tsu.ru/nir/dh/map.htm.

Keywords

• Digital humanities
• modern technology of humanitarian studies
• research infrastructure
• world digital humanities centers