RUDN Journal of Russian History (Dec 2011)
Information Technology and Information Approach in Historical Research
Abstract
The article is devoted to the evolution of theoretical and applied aspects of information technology in historical research. The author shows that the development of theoretical concepts of an information approach, methodological and technological standards of the analysis of the information contained in historical sources is determined by the interdisciplinary relationship between history and other social sciences and by specificity of the historical sources. The impact of technological and information revolutions on the development and change of theoretical concepts is studied on the example of international and Russian experience in the interdisciplinary field of historical information science.