Page 138 - Journal of Library Science in China, Vol.47, 2021

Digital humanities evaluation: discipline, professio-

nalism and technicality

CAI Yingchun 〇a ∗
Shanghai International Studies University Library, Shanghai 200083, China

Abstract
As a phenomenal international discourse in the 21st century, the depth, breadth and speed of the
development of digital humanities have been significantly improved. At the same time, the evaluation
of digital humanities has begun to enter the vision of researchers and become a new topic in digital
humanities. In accordance with the characteristics and development stages of digital humanities, this
paper constructs and discusses the evaluation of digital humanities from three dimensions: discipline,
professionalism and technicality. Discipline is the core element, and the evaluation of digital humanities
results depends on whether they promote knowledge and academic innovation in the field of humanities.
Professionalism is the key element. The library, information and archives science provides basic data
facilities and methodological guidance for digital humanities by using its professional knowledge of
information organization, retrieval and analysis. It is also the medium and link connecting disciplines
and technologies. Technicality is an essential element. Information technology, natural language
processing technology, Semantic Web technology and text mining technology are applied to human
data analysis to advance academic innovation and knowledge innovation in the field of humanities. In
the field of library, information and archives, we should give full play to the advantages of professional
knowledge, technology application, professional talents and professional organizations, strengthen
interdisciplinary communication and cooperation, and help promote theoretical innovation, knowledge
innovation, disciplinary innovation and method innovation in the field of humanities. At the same
time, we should learn from the existing evaluation research results and practical experience to lead the
evaluation of digital human results.

Keywords
Digital humanities evaluation, Library, information and archives science, Interdisciplinary research,
Discipline, Specialty, Technology

0 Introduction

As a phenomenal international discourse in the 21st century, the depth, breadth, speed and
attention degree of digital humanity have been significantly improved under the background of
the rapid development of digital technologies, tools and methods. Adapting to the trend of digital
transformation and reform of the whole society, digital humanities has developed a relatively
complete interdisciplinary research system no matter in theoretical construction or technology

*Correspondence should be addressed to CAI Yingchun, Email: cyingc@shisu.edu.cn, ORCID: 0000-0002-7736-2267.