I am unsure as to what you mean by directions of digital history? Are you referring to the ways in which historians use technology to display/publish history? The history of computing is a distinct field like the history of technology. - computing history would be a sub-topic under the history of technology. Whereas digital history is the task of using today's technology to publish history in any topic. My school has a digital history M.A. Program where we not only learned about the ways in which to utilize technology to allow history to reach a broader audience but maintain its scholarliness (not really a word but could not think of another) but also the history of digital history. We discussed the newspaper, books, computers, the Internet, films, documentary, and of course historiography. It was a great program. Let me know if any of this helps or if you can clarify perhaps I can give you a more accurate answer.
Michelle white
Thanks for the reply. As I understand it, the problem field of Digital History-is primarily digitization of historical sources, electronic publishing and development of specialized software for this purpose. (For example, what do in Center for History and New Media at George Mason University).
However, in 1986 was established the International Association for History and Computing (AHC) to study the use of computers in historical research. This Association has branches in many European countries. Direction "History and Computing" - the European equivalent "Digital History" or something else?
Sounds to me like they are the same but let me take a couple of days to look at that organization and find out exactly what the org is about. I will reply in a couple of days with more information and a more detailed answer. This is a great question by the way.
As I see it, the use of computers in historical research is much broader than the (relatively simple) digitisation of source material. IT is frequently the means by which material is located, viewed, reviewed, stored, publicised, published, and so on. It is, for example, the means by which we are carrying out this discussion. It is anything which supports the historian in carrying out day to day tasks. (there might be a formal definition somewhere - these are just my thoughts, I will look forward to any comments Michelle White may eventually make.)
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