Digitální historie: teoretická a metodologická východiska pro výzkum soudobých dějin 2.0

• Authors: Jiří Hlaváček

Title variants

EN

Digital history: theoretical and methodological foundations for contemporary history 2.0 research

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Contemporary history research in the digital age is increasingly dominated by digital sources. The study of these data requires not only different critical approaches for their examination, but also new competences on the part of historians of contemporary history, especially in terms of advanced user skills in the field of information technology. Since the end of the 1990s, this issue has been intensively addressed by the so-called digital history, which focuses on working with digitized or exclusively digital sources in hybrid research of the (not only recent) past. In his overview study, Hlaváček introduces digital history as a relatively young (sub)- discipline of historiography, summarizes its development to date, and outlines its basic theoretical and methodological background and concepts, including current trends, the rapid development of artificial intelligence tools, and possible future implications for historians. He concludes by highlighting the transformation of historical research methods in the context of the twenty-first century and the need to combine classical and digital approaches to achieve more comprehensive results. He notes that while in some Western countries the issue has already received relatively systematic institutional and research attention, in Czech historiography the reflection on issues related to digital history as well as the acquisition of relevant professional competences is still at the very early stages.

Keywords

CS

digitální historie; soudobé dějiny; teorie historiografie; historická metodologie; historické prameny; historická data; informační technologie; digital humanities; umělá inteligence

EN

digital history; contemporary history; theory of historiography; historical methodology; historical sources; historical data; information technologies; digital humanities; artificial intelligence

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Soudobé dějiny (Contemporary History)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 355-390
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jiří Hlaváček

• Soudobé dějiny, redakce, Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, v.v.i., Vlašská 9, 118 40 Praha 1, Czech Republic