数字人文:科学边界的新挑战

Digital Humanities:New Challenges at the Boundaries of Science

数字人文处于技术与文化的中间地带,人文学科独特的精神气质为其提供精神启迪和智慧思考,数字技术则让其具有定量的底气。数字人文的研究符合科学理论的一般特征以及费格尔五指标的要求,具有“科学性”。数字人文把数字技术运用到人文研究中,给人文学科带来了崭新的研究思路与分析方法,实现了人文学科思维模式、研究方法的创新,为人文学科注入了全新的活力。作为人文与科学汇流的数字人文,对科学与人文边界提出了双重挑战,开启了科学与人文双重复兴的实践探索。

Digital humanities is located in the middle ground between technology and culture,where the unique spirituality of humanities provides spiritual enlightenment and intellectual reflection,while digital technology gives it a quantitative base.Digital humanities research conforms to the general characteristics of scientific theory and the requirements of Fagel’s five indicators,and it is“scientific”.By applying digital technology to humanities research,digital humanities brings new research ideas and analysis methods to humanities disciplines,realizes innovation in humanities thinking patterns and research methods,and injects new vital-ity into humanities disciplines.As a confluence of humanities and science,digital humanities poses a double challenge to the boundary between science and humanities,and opens up a practical exploration of the double revival of science and humanities.