Humanities & Social Sciences 7 (2016 9) 1682-1689 ~ ~ ~ УДК 930.85:004.35 Digital Humanities in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage Marina A. Laptevaa b *, Eugenia A. Gordeevaa and Alexei A. Laptevb * a Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics 49 Kronversky av., St. Petersburg, 197101, Russia Received 19.02.2016, received in revised form 24.04.2016, accepted 09.05.2016 The use of digital technologies in science has contributed greatly to the creation of new scientific directions and research aspects. <...> The authors also consider the projects of building DH centers and applying digital tools to research in philosophy, education, history, linguistics, and musical studies. <...> The authors discuss the impact of DH in cultural heritage using several national and international projects as case studies. <...> Keywords: visual culture, humanities, digital culture, digital era, digital humanities, human sciences, digital technology, computer science, humanities computing. <...> Introduction The digital technology used in the field of humanities has been firmly established as a very effective in application methodological tool. <...> A number of interesting research projects with the use of digital technologies are implemented in an interdisciplinary field, involving researchers from various knowledge fields: linguistics, history, sociology, cultural history, etc. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: krasmargo@mail.ru; alaptev91@yandex.ru – 1682 – result, there is a tendency of so-called “digital revolution”, which set a new field of research – Digital Humanities [Volodin, 2014]. <...> Digital Humanities as a scientific discipline What are Digital Humanities: science, methodology, or technology? <...> Digital Humanities (hereinafter referred to as DH) can be regarded as computer science with a humanitarian orientation, which formed either a scientific field or an academic discipline. <...> During her stay in Marina A. Lapteva, Eugenia A. Gordeeva . <...> Digital Humanities in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage Krasnoyarsk, Melissa Terras in the lecture for students of the School for Humanities expressed her own opinion: “Although the study of university curriculum cannot give an unambiguous answer to the question about the extent of the value of this discipline, this study answers the important questions that arise <...>