Exploring Research Focus Association in Digital Humanities

Digital Technology and Humanities have been gradually integrated into a new research disciplinary. The study aims to understand how research focuses in Digital Humanities associate with each other as well as identifying influential research focuses by the use of association rule mining. A total of 77 paper obtained from SSCI database was analyzed by association rule mining. The results show that library and digital library, research and digital library, digital humanity and digital library are the most frequent and influential research focuses in this research field. It is suggested that the development trend of Digital Humanities is based on utilizing resources available in the digital library and conducting research to advance the development of humanities.