Models, Field and Perspectives of Digital History

Scenarios, Contexts and Applications

Abstract

This essay aims to discuss some of the characteristics in the field of Digital History. My analysis focuses on the general context of the transformations that are affecting the models of knowledge organization and the associated disciplinary practices. Which are the principles, objectives and methods of Digital History in this historical phase that Luciano Floridi defines "Hyperhistory"? Is the computational power of machines actually modifying some of the fundamental elements of historical research methodology? This article intends to deliver a general analysis on these topics, while also trying to integrate in a unitary reasoning various issues that touch on elements of extreme importance in a discipline that is recognized as one of the cores of cultural tradition.