"The Elements of Digital Humanities

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- Core Theme: The chapter clarifies five key elements of digital humanities, exploring how each element is transformed and studied through digital technologies, and emphasizing their interactive roles in digital humanities research.
- Key Elements Analysis:
1. Object: Refers to digitalized entities (e.g., texts, data sets), with digitality changing their storage, access and analysis modes.
2. Artifact: Carries cultural and historical meanings, digital tools help decode their connotations and contextual value.
3. Image: Digital image processing technologies enable precise analysis of visual materials, expanding research dimensions of visual humanities.
4. Sound: Digital audio technologies realize the preservation, restoration and interpretation of sound materials, enriching the research of auditory culture.
5. Space: Digital spatial modeling (e.g., GIS) helps reconstruct historical spaces and analyze spatial-human relationships.
- Core Insight: These five elements are interrelated, and digital technologies provide new methods for their research, promoting the innovative development of digital humanities.