Notes on the Study of Loma
A script was developed in the 1930’s for the Loma language by Widɔ Zoɓo of Boneketa, Liberia. While it has gone through a few iterations in the decades since the design of the original syllabary, it has not seen much
Notes on the Study of Loma
A script was developed in the 1930’s for the Loma language by Widɔ Zoɓo of Boneketa, Liberia. While it has gone through a few iterations in the decades since the design of the original syllabary, it has not seen much
Proceed with Caution! Identifying Structures using Royal Inscriptions (Part 1)
I’m going to preface this post with a note that I am NOT an archaeologist. I have taken archaeology classes, and spent one, very memorable, field-season doing a surface survey in southern Turkey…but I am not an archaeologist. Any mistakes
Proceed with Caution! Identifying Structures using Royal Inscriptions (Part 1)
I’m going to preface this post with a note that I am NOT an archaeologist. I have taken archaeology classes, and spent one, very memorable, field-season doing a surface survey in southern Turkey…but I am not an archaeologist. Any mistakes
DH Project at Utrecht University: Bridging the Gap
At Utrecht University, the project ‘Bridging the Gap: Digital Humanities and the Arabic-Islamic corpus’, seeks to “harness state-of-the art Digital Humanities approaches and technologies to make pioneering forays into the vast corpus of digitised Arabic texts that has become
DH Project at Utrecht University: Bridging the Gap
At Utrecht University, the project ‘Bridging the Gap: Digital Humanities and the Arabic-Islamic corpus’, seeks to “harness state-of-the art Digital Humanities approaches and technologies to make pioneering forays into the vast corpus of digitised Arabic texts that has become
Creating an Online Calculator (2): Algorithms and Code
By James Harry Morris Previously I uploaded a post about an online calculator that I had created for converting the shakkanhō 尺貫法 units of measurement into their metric and imperial counterparts. Following the publication of the aforementioned post, I realized that it
Creating an Online Calculator (2): Algorithms and Code
By James Harry Morris Previously I uploaded a post about an online calculator that I had created for converting the shakkanhō 尺貫法 units of measurement into their metric and imperial counterparts. Following the publication of the aforementioned post, I realized that it
Creating an Online Calculator for the Conversion of Shakkanhō (Japanese) Units
By James Harry Morris Introduction When I was invited to become the editor of the Japan Studies content on Digital Orientalist, I began to reflect more fully on the problems that I have faced in my own research and the
Creating an Online Calculator for the Conversion of Shakkanhō (Japanese) Units
By James Harry Morris Introduction When I was invited to become the editor of the Japan Studies content on Digital Orientalist, I began to reflect more fully on the problems that I have faced in my own research and the
A new year, a new team
This year, The Digital Orientalist will come to life as it never has done before. It will no longer be one man’s blog, but a website run by a team of six people, bringing you new content (almost) every week.
A new year, a new team
This year, The Digital Orientalist will come to life as it never has done before. It will no longer be one man’s blog, but a website run by a team of six people, bringing you new content (almost) every week.
Apps for Learning Cursive Japanese
By James Harry Morris Learning how to read cursive Japanese script (or alternatively cursive Chinese script) is one of the most difficult tasks that I have faced as a scholar of East Asian history. Even now it is a skill
Apps for Learning Cursive Japanese
By James Harry Morris Learning how to read cursive Japanese script (or alternatively cursive Chinese script) is one of the most difficult tasks that I have faced as a scholar of East Asian history. Even now it is a skill
