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.
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
The Japanese government was able to sustain total war against the Allied Powers for almost half a decade after losing … Continue reading Mapping Prefectural-Level Financial Mobilisation in Wartime Japan
Witnessing Ottoman Studies’ recent integration of AI is exciting for the field’s development in terms of its inclusion of wider, … Continue reading Digital Humanities and Ottoman Studies: A Review
2025/6 was my first year as editor for Central Asian Studies at The DO, having previously been a contributing writer for … Continue reading Editor’s Digest – Central Asia 2025/6