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.
“…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
My previous work on Sindhi literature in post-Partition involves PG Sindhi Library, Sindhi Halchal Archive, and Sindhi Sanchaya. Posts dealing … Continue reading Oral Histories from Sindhi Libraries in India: Infrastructures around Sindhi Literature