디지털 인문학과 고문헌 자료 연구

Abstract

Digital humanities is an effort to facilitate the pursuit and application of humanities knowledge in the era of digital expression and communication. To contribute to the scholarly research by revolutionizing the research methods is one of Digital Humanities' primary goals. But beyond it, Digital Humanities is also concerened with the humanities education for the next generation who are digital natives; as well as the application of humanities knowledge in creative industry for a wider audience. This is by the same token that the traditional humanities does not limit itself to the speicalized research in disciplines such as literature, philosophy, and history, but involves itself also in the humanities education and the social application of humanities knowledge. In this paper, I specified the goal of digital humanities into three subfields, namely research, education, and application. Then, I introduced the Historical Family Document Archives Project by the Academy of Korean Studies, as a case that illustrates how digital humanities is used in the research of historical documents. Finally, I explained how such approach may further be used in the humanities education in college, as well as the development of culture content for a wider audience.