Practical examples and theoretical reflections on the do's and don'ts of using digital tools for your study and research in African, Oriental Studies..
Biblical work obviously primarily relies on working with “the text.” However, as anyone involved in biblical studies knows, there really … Continue reading Digitized Hebrew and Greek Manuscripts: Access and Issues
Digitizing the Visual Legacies of the North China Transportation Company The North China Railway Archive (華北交通アーカイブ) is an online database … Continue reading Visualizing North China Under Japanese Occupation: Digitized Photos of the North China Railway Archive
Sometimes it takes days or even weeks to be able to read and decipher a word in manuscripts. This problem, … Continue reading Deciphering Ottoman Turkish Manuscripts with LexiQamus
This post has been contributed by Emre Amasyali. Information about the author is included at the end of the post. … Continue reading Social Scientific Applications of Historical GIS, Part 2: Linking and Visualizing Population Data in ArcGIS
As I noted in an earlier post, there was one 19th century prayer that had been published in Mende in Latin script … Continue reading Turning the page on a 19th century Mende prayer
In the field of early China, the end of the 20th century will be remembered by many as a time … Continue reading Online Resources for Chinese Palaeography, Part One
A few months ago, I noticed a plethora of posts on social media about the discovery of the hidden library … Continue reading Social Media and the Distribution of Knowledge about Missing Syriac Manuscripts
This post has been contributed by Emre Amasyali. Information about the author is included at the end of the post. … Continue reading Social Scientific Applications of Historical GIS, Part 1: Digitizing Historical Maps and Creating District Polygons in ArcGIS
BuddhaNexus is a text-matching database with visualization capabilities that draws its data from Buddhist literary corpora in Pāli, Sanskrit, Tibetan, … Continue reading Text-Matching at the Canonical Crossroads: An Introduction to BuddhaNexus (Part I)
This year I have had the pleasure of being involved in the “Tackling Pandemics in Early Modern Japan” transcription project … Continue reading Digital Resources for Japanese Palaeography
