方法对比

	数字文本批评	历史档案研究
领域	田野方法	田野方法
方法族	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
起源年份	1990s–2000s (mature field by early 2000s)	19th century (formalized ~1820s–1880s)
提出者	Patrick Sahle, Peter Robinson, and the digital humanities community (building on traditional textual criticism)	Historians and archivists; systematised through the professionalization of historical scholarship in the 19th century
类型	Qualitative-computational philological method	Qualitative primary-source research
开创性文献	Sahle, P. (2013). Digitale Editionsformen. Zum Umgang mit der Überlieferung unter den Bedingungen des Medienwandels. 3 vols. Norderstedt: Books on Demand.	Hill, M. R. (1993). Archival Strategies and Techniques. Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-0803951853
别名	digital philology, computational textual criticism, digital scholarly editing, digital critical editing	archival research, historical document analysis, archival history, primary source research
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摘要	Digital textual criticism is the application of computational and digital methods to the scholarly analysis, collation, and editing of historical texts. Building on centuries-old philological practice, it uses tools such as XML/TEI encoding, automated collation software (e.g., CollateX), and computational stemmatology to compare manuscript witnesses, reconstruct textual transmission histories, and produce digital critical editions that are richer and more transparent than their print counterparts.	Historical archival research is a systematic method of investigating the past through the critical examination of primary source documents preserved in archives, libraries, and institutional collections. Researchers locate, access, authenticate, and interpret original records — such as government documents, correspondence, diaries, maps, and institutional files — to reconstruct events, trace processes, and build evidence-based historical arguments. It is foundational to historiography and widely applied across humanities and social science disciplines.