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also paid attention to it and published relevant research results, suggesting that digital humanities
has gradually been accepted by the fields of humanities and social sciences. It also indicates that
humanities driven by digital technology is undergoing changes in research methods and ideological
theories.
At present, we are constructing new liberal arts. The proposal of “digital humanities ecology”
urges us to examine current digital humanities practice from a holistic perspective. For humanities
scholars in the context of the new liberal arts, on the one hand, they need to have the courage and
ability to break through traditional humanities research based on their understanding of digital
humanities, and seek to promote the extension of humanities research to a broader space and
scenario through digital humanities platforms or related projects with a positive attitude. On the
other hand, they should also have the spirit of interdisciplinary cooperation, be good at thinking
about the development path of digital humanities from traditional humanities research, and the
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possibility of further integration of digital technology and humanities research , to achieve
the transformation to digital humanities scholars. Digital humanities is not only a simple linear
application in a certain field, or an application at different levels across fields, but also a multi-
dimensional and three-dimensional network structure that promotes the formation of an academic
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community of digital humanities in various disciplines .
(2) Professionalism. The essence of digital humanities is to use digital concepts and data analysis
techniques to deeply reveal relevant words and relationships between words in texts, achieving
the multi-dimensional co-occurrence that transcends time and space, enabling humanities scholars
to break through the original plane and textual perspective, to develop new research perspectives,
and to enlighten thinking. In the process of planning, organizing, and implementing digital
humanities projects, library science plays a crucial role in the disclosure, indexing, and knowledge
organization cognition. The knowledge rules revealed by indexing are the foundation for building a
human knowledge system, as well as the foundation for implementing new solutions to knowledge
discovery. Revealing the inherent relationships between indexing words and ultimately achieving
the analysis and processing of a large quantity of materials has greatly broken through the capacity
of traditional individual limited lives and memories. The implementation of automatic indexing and
its practice in the field of library, information and archives has greatly improved the efficiency and
quality of indexing. At the same time, based on uncontrolled vocabularies and natural language, the
effective disclosure of knowledge systems in the field of humanities by co-word analysis, semantic
web technology, and ontology methods has also built a broad development space and prospect for
digital humanities research .
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The abundant information resources and professional data service platforms in the library are
the prerequisite for accurate data analysis and reliable research conclusions in digital humanities
research, as well as the guarantee for interdisciplinary research. Therefore, the key to library
participation in digital humanities research is to find a precise positioning. Whether it is at the
theoretical or practical level, it is necessary to re-examine the concept of “literature”, especially