Archiwizowanie dziedzictwa językowego – w poszukiwaniu własnej tożsamości
Archiving the Linguistic Heritage – In Search of Identity

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to characterise philological research conducted today using digital tools. Its main idea is to summarise previous research approaches within the new scientific discipline of digital humanities. It is characterised as a new model of scholarly communication that uses new technologies to conduct research and is interdisciplinary and collaborative in nature. The text is of a reporting and reviewing nature and it briefly describes the research perspective of the global digital humanities as a socially open science that exploits the potential of media and digital technologies. It juxtaposes this perspective with digitisation work that aims to archive cultural heritage fixed in language in the digital humanities environment in Krakow. It presents the most important digital resources in the field of historical linguistics in Poland (digitised dictionaries and corpora of historical Polish) and postulates the creation of a diachronic corpus of the Polish language for the study of its linguistic and cultural heritage. The general conclusion of the review is that the use of digital methods in archiving linguistic and cultural heritage brings new results in the form of large, unprecedented data sets. Their processing and interpretation using the methods of computational and quantitative linguistics can help formulate answers to key questions in the humanities. The research was performed with the financial support of Priority Research Areas: POB Heritage and POB DigiWorld as part of the Strategic Excellence Initiative Programme at Jagiellonian University.

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