Abstract: ［Purpose/Significance］Exploring the development path of archives under the wave of digital humanities is a positive and active response to the interaction between humanistic studies and digital technologies for the archival community.［Design/Methodology］By analyzing the relationship between digital humanities and archives, this paper clarified the influence of digital humanities on function positioning, business work, and personnel development of archives in China, then pointed out the development direction of archives in the new context from five aspects including service conception, working system, resource construction, business content and staff structure.［Findings/Conclusion］It is suggested that archives in China should establish the concept of archival humanistic service with user classification, build a mechanism of cross-border cooperation for digital humanistic projects in archives, construct digital humanistic repository based on archives and documents, design archival interface catering for users’ culture cognition, and train or introduce the digital humanistic archivists.［Originality/Value］This study explores the essential relevance between archives and digital humanities systematically and profoundly, which could partly make up for the absence of archives in the research on digital humanistic theories and practice in the field of library, information and archives management.

Key words: Digital humanities, Archives, Function transition, Innovative development