Digitization of Archived Documents as a Source Study Problem
Russkii Arkhiv · 2019
The article analyzes promising research approaches related to the sequential translation of archival documents into digital format, transforming traditional source-study concepts.The selected issues did not receive full and comprehensive coverage in the national historiography, which turned mainly to the technical aspects of documentary digitalization.The author's concept is based on the basic concepts of theoretical source study, as well as empirical material and personal observations, consolidated as a result of practical activities in the State Archives of the Rostov Region.Research practice related to the targeted use of digital images of archival documents has favorable prospects associated with a qualitative change in the initial conditions of the scientific work of a professional historian.In the foreseeable future, modern historians will turn to a comprehensive analysis of electronic documentary complexes, allowing to reconstruct a significant array of valuable historical evidence.In this context, the organic synthesis of traditional sourcebased approaches and the latest models formed by the growing technical capabilities of the information society is of fundamental importance.