Digital Science
Digital Technologies are Leading to
disruptive Change in Our World!
The Digital
Transformation
With the ever-increasing and rapid development of digital technologies, our society is undergoing a fundamental and disruptive change in all areas of life, which is commonly referred to succinctly as digital transformation.
Nothing remains as it was in times without computers, pre-Internet and WWW, before WLAN, smartphones and the cloud. The way people live together, the way they think, do business and act in society has been affected and is changing at an unimaginable speed, with no clear indication of where this development will lead.
The Necessary Scientific Support for the Digital Transformation
Bringing light and understanding to the processes of this development is a major challenge for science. However, traditional disciplines are not in a position to even begin to address and master these challenges.
Digital Science
New scientific disciplines are emerging under the term Digital Science, with their own tools, theories, and methods for investigating expanded objects of study, including new virtual dimensions. Digital Science encompasses all disciplines involved in the digital transformation of the real world, reflecting, analyzing, and supporting these processes scientifically.
Digital Science provides a holistic analysis of how digital transformation, driven by information and communication technologies (ICT) and artificial intelligence (AI), is changing the real world.
Its impact can be summarized across several dimensions:
advances in hardware, software, and computational methods
changes in human interaction, collaboration, and communication
effects on markets, industries, and business processes
influence on governance, regulation, and policy
Digital science encompasses individual disciplines from all scientific fields
Digital science describes an interdisciplinary field that encompasses many and very different individual scientific disciplines that are based on the systematic application of digital methods and digital resources or deal with different aspects of digitization. These disciplines come from all subject areas:
Interdisciplinary Field
Digital science describes an interdisciplinary field that encompasses many and very different individual scientific disciplines that are based on the systematic application of digital methods and digital resources or deal with different aspects of digitization.
Digital Tools & Technologies
Researchers in the field of Digital Science use a variety of digital tools and technologies for data collection, analysis and visualization.
Data Analysis
Large amounts of data are collected and then analyzed to identify patterns and gain new insights.
Combined Methods
Digital Science combines methods and concepts from various subject areas, such as mathematics, computer science and statistics with the specific specialist knowledge of the other disciplines. This enables new research methods and questions that would not be possible to ask and answer within traditional approaches.