The use of computers to analyze research data in arts and humanities disciplines such as literature and history dates back to the 1940s. The digital humanities also referred to as humanities computing, maybe a field of study, research, teaching, and invention concerned with the intersection of computing and therefore the disciplines of the humanities. It is a study that is methodological naturally and interdisciplinary in scope. It involves investigation, analysis, synthesis and presentation of data in electronic form. It studies how these media affect the disciplines during which they're used, and what these disciplines need to contribute to our knowledge of computing. This paper elaborates the concept of Digital Humanities, its origin and development. Introduction:

This essay presents an overview of the history of DH and its applications in the teaching of Russian language and cultural studies.

Observations on the current stage of the Digital Humanities and their environment identify four dangers: (1) The focus on infrastructures for the Digital Humanities may obscure that research ultimately is driven by analytical methods and tools, not just by the provision of data or publishing tools. (2) Information technology can support the Humanities in many forms and national traditions. That textual analysis is much discussed right now, should not hide the view of a broader disciplinary field. (3) The mobile revolution looming may once again lead to a repetition of highly destructive processes observed at the PC and the internet revolutions. (4) The Digital Humanities may have to take a much stronger part in the development, not only the reception, of technology. – A series of concrete and controversial questions, which allow the discussion of some of these trends, is derived. 1. Background and motivation for a discussion of the Digital Humanities “Computing in the Humanities” ha...

The article offers a definition, overview, and assessment of the current state of digital humanities, particularly with regard to its actual and potential contribution to literary studies. It outlines the history of humanities computing and digital humanities, its evolution as a discipline, including its institutional development and outstanding challenges it faces. It also considers some of the most cogent critiques digital humanities has faced, particularly from North American-based literary scholars, some of whom have suggested it represents a threat to centuries-old traditions of humanistic inquiry and particularly to literary scholarship based on the tradition of close reading. The article shows instead that digital humanities approaches gainfully employed offer powerful new means of illuminating both context and content of texts, to assist with both close and distant readings, offering a supplement rather than a replacement for traditional means of literary inquiry. The digita...

The incorporation of the humanities into digital transformation processes resulted in the emergence of a new research field called digital humanities. This new field has its origin in the beginning of the second half of the twentieth century. From the research point of view, through the analysis of the scientific production of the main academic databases, we provide here an overview of the international panorama of digital humanities, looking at the main countries, institutions, areas of knowledge and leading topics in this discipline.