CFA: Join The DO Team 2026/27
The Digital Orientalist is pleased to announce its annual open call for contributors and team members for the 2026-2027 academic … Continue reading CFA: Join The DO Team 2026/27
Digital Curatorship, Handling Special Collections, and Lessons Learned from My Pursuit of Historical Photographs of People Reading in China
This is a guest post by Damian Mandzunowski. The author bio is below. The premise behind this piece is simple: … Continue reading Digital Curatorship, Handling Special Collections, and Lessons Learned from My Pursuit of Historical Photographs of People Reading in China
The Evidence of the Small: Digital Historical Forensics and What Big Data Cannot See in Wartime Chinese Propaganda
This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities) … Continue reading The Evidence of the Small: Digital Historical Forensics and What Big Data Cannot See in Wartime Chinese Propaganda
Editor’s Digest May 2026: Digital Humanities in General
Introduction This year’s pieces for Digital Humanities in General have covered various aspects of the practice and theory of Digital … Continue reading Editor’s Digest May 2026: Digital Humanities in General
ERROR 404: Failure Not Found
The DH Awards include a category for “Exploration of DH Failure/Limitations”. During the DH Awards of 2025, the category did … Continue reading ERROR 404: Failure Not Found
From Coordinates to Connections: Mapping People and Places in Ottoman Turkish Texts
Introduction In my previous work exploring the first volume of Künhü’l-Ahbar, Gelibolulu Mustafa Âlî’s work on history and geography from … Continue reading From Coordinates to Connections: Mapping People and Places in Ottoman Turkish Texts
The Database of Medieval Nubian Texts: A Digital Foundation for the Study of Medieval African Literate Culture
Introduction In the middle Nile Valley—the region extending from present-day Aswan in southern Egypt to northern Sudan—Christian Nubian kingdoms flourished … Continue reading The Database of Medieval Nubian Texts: A Digital Foundation for the Study of Medieval African Literate Culture
Running IIIF Locally: A Simple Setup Guide
Introduction Many of the fields of study here on The Digital Orientalist rely heavily on images hosted online. In textual … Continue reading Running IIIF Locally: A Simple Setup Guide
Artificial Intelligence Hegemony: What is it and How Can We Resist as Humanity Researchers
This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities) … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence Hegemony: What is it and How Can We Resist as Humanity Researchers
Digital Coptic Studies: Where Do We Stand—and Where Do We Go Next?
This is a guest post by Mona Hassan Ahmed Sawy. Over the past decade, Coptic studies, in all its branches—language, … Continue reading Digital Coptic Studies: Where Do We Stand—and Where Do We Go Next?