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and storytelling: paths and methods of archives research on the perspective of digital humanities

Table 1. Updating and mapping of archival research elements from DH perspective

Based on reference to relevant research [21] , this paper sorts out nine core elements of archival
research, including research objects, philosophical basis, technical system and so on, defines their
connotations and forms under the traditional research paradigm and from DH perspective, and
inspects the mapping conditions of the updating and transmutation of research elements. It is found
that scientific and technological innovation and scholars’ cognition play a key role in the process
of most changes of elements. Science and technology, especially the information processing
technology based on computer and the Internet continues to undergo revolutionary changes, first
acting on the research object and causing the change of its basic form. Scholars from archival
science and related fields keenly observe this phenomenon, summarize it and develop it to the
change of the research object ontology and its attributes. After discussion, it gradually becomes
the general consensus of the academic community, and then urges the mediating effect of the
research object, affecting the development of a series of elements such as research points, projects,
technologies and utilization.

2.2.2 The methodological system based on DH and archival resource development
From DH perspective, it is difficult to achieve the normalization of new archival research elements
in discipline research only by the introduction of external technology and the innovation of internal
ideas. It is necessary to try to propose a research path and method system, which is relatively stable
and adapts to the new environment under the premise of clarifying the archival research object
and its basic attributes, promoting the transition of archival discipline to a new research paradigm