Practical examples and theoretical reflections on the do's and don'ts of using digital tools for your study and research in African and Asian Studies.
Among the manuscript heritage preserved at the National Centre of Manuscripts of Georgia (https://manuscript.ge/?lng=eng), Georgian secular manuscripts – both original … Continue reading The 17th Century Georgian Manuscripts (H-599 and S-1594) Featuring Secular Miniatures from the National Centre of Manuscripts of Georgia
Between 2024 and 2025, I worked on my thesis for my Masters in East Asian Studies at New York University. … Continue reading Dictionary Tools and their Recognition of Kyūjitai
When we talk about Russian and Chinese influence in Central Asia, it is tempting to imagine a competition with a … Continue reading Mapping Moscow and Beijing: What Open-Source Data Can Tell Us About Influence in Central Asia
Introduction In 1949, Nabia Abbott published the editio princeps of the earliest Thousand Nights text alongside an exhaustive decipherment of … Continue reading From Hazār Afsān to the Earliest “Thousand and One Nights”: A Digital Fragmentology Approach
“…till 7 in the Morning the 22th, seeing Molalia playn N.N.W. we stood away N.W. and N. about the west … Continue reading Where They Actually Went: The Presence Problem in Digitised Travel Writing
Introduction In 2009, Unicode 5.2.0 encoded 1,071 Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs based on Alan Gardiner’s symbol list (Everson and Richmond 2007). … Continue reading Composing and Inputting Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs with Unicode Control Characters: The Impact of Egyptian OpenType
The Open Buddhist University (OBU) is an unaccredited, freely accessible digital resource founded in 2020. Its mission is to provide … Continue reading The OBU: An Interview with Khemarato Bhikkhu
This is our second interview as part of the NIHU DH × The DO Interviews. This series features interviews with … Continue reading On Digital Humanities in Japan, the Public Humanities and Digital History: An Interview with Prof. Kikuchi Nobuhiko (NIHU DH × The DO Interviews #2)
This is a guest post by Khemarato Bhikkhu. Shortly after ordaining, a young monk in Thailand will be given a … Continue reading The Open Buddhist University
This is a guest piece by Aizat Ishembieva. This post describes how structured text extraction and the creation of a … Continue reading From Scanned Travel Books to a Page-Aware Corpus: Testing Microsoft Foundry for Historical Research on Central Asia