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If the digital humanities in North America are demonstrating a centrifugal force, the digital humanities in Europe are evaluated to be centripetal. In Europe, which is a relative latecomer when compared to the US, digitization is continuing mainly through government support. DARIAH, CLARIN, and a number of large-scale platforms such as EUROPEANA, a European digital culture platform with 3,500 institutions across Europe, and www-digitale-bibliothek, a German version of EUROPEANA, as well as many “International archives” were representative. Beyond such digitization of the historical materials, research in the field of “digital history” has been continuously published. The “Digital History” was created as a separate research group under the German Historians’ Association in the 2012. Although there is criticism that the digital history just resembles the existing quantitative approach or did not suggest a new historical methodology, it is undeniable that the Digital History already showed a number of meaningful research results. Ultimately, future historical researches should not be “either digital or analog” but rather “how much digital”.

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