数字化时代生成的新样态史料,在存在形态、生成方式、传播方式等方面发生了巨大革新,使史料在历史知识建构过程中呈现新的符号学意义。新样态史料是技术符号,具有大数据“体量巨大、种类繁多、传输迅速”等外显特征。新样态史料保存了传统形态史料的真实性,并赋有交互性和开放性特征。新样态史料是语言符号,体现人类历史发展过程的理性轨迹,也记录着与这种理性活动相伴随的情感活动。新样态史料是价值符号,表现一个社会的整体存在和利益关切,也反映社会中的个体维度和价值观念。新样态史料是学术符号,遵循既有历史学学术规则过滤掉大量依托大数据技术生成的海量伪历史信息,同时要求历史学家运用跨学科方法研究相应历史主题。
In big data era, the modes making and dissemination of historical sources in new modes have achieved great innovations. It gives rise to the new semiotical meanings of historical sources in historical construction. Historical sources in new modes are technological signs, having the characteristics "high - volume, high - variety and high - velocity of big data. They also have the characteristics of interaction and openness. Historical sources in new modes are language signs, embodying rational trajectory of hu- man history and recording emotional activities accompanying such rational activities. Historical sources in new modes are value signs, representing the whole being and interests of one society and reflecting individuals and their values. Historical sources in new modes are academic signs, filtering massive pseudo - historical information whose being rests upon big data technology following the existing academic rules and requiring historians to study relevant historical subjects by interdisciplinary methods.