Digital Humanities Projects in Educational Process

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to outline the main directions and prospects of digital humanities development; to find out the main principles of the scientific space transformation, caused by the implementation of digital humanities; to define the transdisciplinary ontology as digital humanities important tool. Methodology of the article is based on implementation of principle of information systematicity and its further modeling in educational and scientific aspects. The information is being analysed for distinguishing its structural components and their semantic and functional coherence. According to the structural and semantic analysis of information, the modeling of information representation is performed. As the productive way of modeling is the transdisciplinary ontology, so principle of transdisciplinarity is one of the basical principle in the study. Transdisciplinary ontology seems to be an important tool of digital humanities. Using ontology it is possible to perform educational information in structured form with all its components, organized in hierarchical construction, and their correlation depiction. Transdisciplinary ontology provides various forms of information graphical display, perception of which helps to understand essential causal factors, principles of information arrangement, its regularities Recommendation for further transdisciplinary ontology application is based on the possible ontology extention by new elements adding according to the enrichment of educational material being learned.