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“Digital turn” makes a significant impact on the research practices. Historical research is a kind of reconstruction of the past based on the extant monuments and documents, “remains” and “legends”. This reconstruction is based on three pillars: heuristics, criticism and interpretation. These three basic practices today meet the challenges of the “digital age”. This research is associated with a new stage in the development of information and digital technologies in history. “Digitizing” is not just a technical procedure now, but it becomes a preparation for further computerized analysis of historical sources, using different tools for visualization and analysis of historical information. The key question of the research is why historians prefer to collect their own ‘capta’, rather than to use someone else’s ‘data’.