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and topic types are diversified. However, passions for practice are ahead of theoretical studies,
which results in inadequacy of conceptualization and systematization in digital memory research.
Digital memory is digitalized culture memory which has the characteristics of cultural memory
and digital information. The historical cultural information of specific objects is harvested,
organized, stored and displayed in digital forms, and loaded, reproduced and spread online.
Digital memory shares the characteristics of multi-resource, multimedia, iteration and open
construction.
Digital memory are mostly constructed through projects. The construction mainly comprises
five aspects, target positioning, cultural interpretation, resource integration, editing and displaying,
and technical support. 1) Target positioning is to determine the function, main body, form, style,
audience and expectation of the project. 2) Cultural interpretation aims to reveal and guard the
spirit of the project. It includes understanding, excavation, textual research, sorting and expression
of the memory object, which is the bedrock of subject selection, cultural structure and presentation.
3) Resource integration is to gather resources of various types and forms related to the memory
object for the purpose of supplement and verification and provide them for the public’s reference.
4) Editing and displaying is to spread memory to more people and descendants, which has a direct
effect on presentation of digital memory. Three elements should be concerned with: the scientific
storage of memory resources, knowledge discovery and full sharing, the presentation of time
and space and user experience. 5) Technical support refers to the technical means applied in the
project’s demand analysis, system development, daily operation and maintenance as well as the
harvest, processing, preservation, presentation and retrieval of resources. Technical support runs
through the full life circle of digital memory projects.
Information and materials of cultural significance are mainly in the form of documents such as
books and archives, which involves social knowledge and emotions. Books and archives, among
others, can play a role in the construction of function memory and meanwhile are the main body
of memory storage. Cultural institutions such as libraries, archives and museums (LAM) can
sponsor the construction of function memory and meanwhile are memory repository. The LAM
should expand their functions and increase their vitality in the construction of digital memory
projects.

Perspective research of digital humanities theory
WANG Lihua, LIU Wei〇 & LIU Shengying
〇a*
Digital Humanities (DH) develops rapidly in recent years. However, scholars pay more attention
to the practical research as a methodology rather than theoretical study. The lack of theoretical

* Correspondence should be addressed to LIU Wei, Email: wliu@libnet.sh.cn, ORCID: 0000-0003-2663-7539.