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.
In September 2025 I published a piece entitled “Alternatives to Google: Is DuckDuckGo Useful for Research?” where I explored whether … Continue reading Three Months of DuckDuckGo: Reflections after Partially “De-Googling”
Japanese historians often cite the minutes of the Imperial Diet[1] to demonstrate changes in state policy and the views of … Continue reading Politicians Speak: An Introduction to the Database System for the Minutes of the Imperial Diet
This article was written by guest contributor Adrien de Jarmy (University of Strasbourg) and Clarck Junior Membourou Moimecheme (Sorbonne Nouvelle … Continue reading The BADR Project (7th–21st c.) – A TEI-Based Approach to Premodern Islamic Texts
Over the last few years, a collaborative project has been developing between the Sinhala Buddhist organisations the International Centre for … Continue reading Sinhala Manuscripts at Wellcome Collection: Collaborative Practice and Cultural Heritage
The Langarchiv project, officially titled “Language as Archive: European Linguistics and the Social History of the Sahara and Sahel in … Continue reading Wikipedia as an Open Access Tool for Restituting Knowledge on African Past
This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities) … Continue reading Suggesting a Language-Specific Gender Perspective for AI Translation Research
This paper presents a computational pipeline for working with spatial data in Ottoman Turkish, from extracting place names via named-entity … Continue reading From Text to Map: A Reproducible Geocoding Pipeline for Ottoman Studies
Since November 2025, we have been publishing the proceedings of The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital … Continue reading An Introduction to Conference Proceedings You May Have Missed: Unaccompanied Videos
In a previous post, I have highlighted the usefulness of notebooks for writing Python code. I mentioned tools like Jupyter … Continue reading Marimo Notebooks
This article was written by guest contributor Raúl Cervera Álvarez (Universitat de Barcelona). Introduction The REDIF research project is based … Continue reading The REDIF Database: A Brief Introduction and Review