COMPUTERS IN SUPPORT OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH.
1.History informatics describes an emerging subdiscipline of informatics and history, following business informatics in the 1980s and biomedical informatics in the 1990s.
2.In analogy to those subdisciplines of informatics, the term “History informatics” was recently coined, derived from the German term “Historische Fachinformatik”.
3.Medieval history was the first branch of the classical humanities (not taking into account modern linguistics) where computer-based quantitative and statistical research was introduced.