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Formation and development of digital history of science
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Concept of digital history
Direction "Historical informatics". Digital History research scope, history of development
Researches conducted in this direction. Foreign experience

Digital history is an emerging field that draws on digital technology and computational methods. A global enterprise that invites scholars worldwide to join forces, it presents exciting and novel ways we might explore, understand and represent the past.

In mass communication, digital media is any communication media that operate in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, and preserved on a digital electronics device, including digital data storage media (in contrast to analog electronic media) and digital broadcasting
Digital media
Digital humanities (DH) is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities. It includes the systematic use of digital resources in the humanities, as well as the analysis of their application
Digital humanities
An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials – in any medium – or the physical facility in which they are located
Digital archieves

There are many advantages to using digital history in conjunction with traditional historical methods. Some of these applications include: * Combining traditional historical methods and new research methods to draw new conclusions. * Using a variety of tools to capture and analyze large amounts of data that would otherwise be impossible. *By adding new research methods to the existing historical method, historians can greatly benefit from the ability to work with large amounts of data and develop new interpretations from it.

Today, CHNM has several digital tools available to historians, such as Zotero, Omeka or Tropy.

In 1997, Ayers and Thomas proposed and founded the Virginia Center for Digital History (VCDH), the first center devoted solely to history to use the term "digital history" at the University of Virginia.

Among the first online digital history projects were the University of Kansas Heritage Project and medieval historian Dr. Lynn Nelson's World History Index and History Central Catalog.

Digital history centers

Center for the Humanities, Letters, and Social Sciences Online (MATRIX) at Michigan State University
The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
The Center for Digital Studies in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska

Several other institutions promoting digital history include
Center for History and New Media (CHNM)

DIGITAL HISTORY CLASSES

Digital history is now a common course type in graduate and undergraduate curriculum. For example, the students in Digital History courses at the University of Hertfordshire have learned skills in digital mapping and Python programming, which makes it more accessible and easier to analyse large quantities of source data.
One project that the class worked on included analyzing the trends, patterns, and relationships of data related to weather, crime, and poverty. This allowed students to use their traditional history skills to evaluate the significance of their findings.
Another project was using digital mapping to compare the differences between various groups of students who studied at Oxford derived from British History Online. Similarly, at Cal State East Bay, history majors meet in the science building's computer lab to go over new and old software that could be used for the creation or presentation of history

MAIN RESEARCHERS ABOUT DIGITAL HISTORY

William G. Thomas III
Roy Rosenzweig
DOCTOR LYNN NELSON
EDWARD L. AYERS
Although the collection dates from 1934, there are many facsimiles of documents, particularly on Central Park, that contain information prior to 1934. The collection is split into nine series, contains 98 boxes and is completely processed with a finding aid.
 
 His later work in the 1990s and early 2000s would follow this route as he would extensively write on the importance of emerging digital media including his book Digital History.
The Special Collections Research Center holds a collection that contains Who Built America and Digital History, as well as many of Rosenzweig’s writings from his time at George Mason. The Roy Rosenzweig collection largely documents his research and writing through articles, notes, and correspondence on New York Central Park, Worcester (Massachusetts), labor, and digital humanities work.

In addition, the collection contains almost complete runs of rare history and humanities periodicals such as Radical History Review Newsletter, Historical Methods Newsletter, History Microcomputer Review, Radical Teacher, Cultural Correspondence, and Radical America. His interest and work with oral history is reflected in the Northern Virginia Oral History Project collection, but his personal collection includes a whole series on oral histories conducted by him.
Roy Rosenzweig