在这样一个人人都在为“大数据”趋之若鹜的时代,数字史学无疑令人着迷。但自以罗森茨威格(Roy Rosenzweig)为代表的学者提出“数字史学”的概念以来,经过几十年的发展,国内世界史学界对数字史学还比较陌生。造成这种困境的原因在于,国外的数字史学圈长期致力于的一项工作是对史料的数码化整理。这些工作并非不重要,甚至可以说相当具有基础性:文献的数字化处理是解决巧妇难为无米之炊的 In such an era when everyone is ’big data’, digital historians are undoubtedly fascinating. However, since the scholars represented by Roy Rosenzweig put forward the concept of “digital historiography”, after decades of development, the domestic scholarship in world history is still unfamiliar to digital historiography. The reason for this predicament is that one of the long-term endeavors of the digital historiography circle abroad is the digitization of historical data. These tasks are not unimportant and can even be said to be fairly fundamental: the digital processing of documents is the solution to the difficulties of making mistakes