Digital history – the near future of historical science

Abstract

In the presented article, the author discusses the development of a new specialty – digital historian, based on the emerging new humanities – digital and public history. It is argued that in the near future this profession will replace historians, turning them either into mediocre primary data collectors or interpreters. In its projects, digital history uses digital media to form crowdsourcing – an expert social network of users that scales the results of scientific research, allows you to visualize data, link them to geographical coordinates and, eventually, gain new knowledge