Dictionary Tools and their Recognition of Kyūjitai
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
Mapping Moscow and Beijing: What Open-Source Data Can Tell Us About Influence in Central Asia
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
From Hazār Afsān to the Earliest “Thousand and One Nights”: A Digital Fragmentology Approach
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
Where They Actually Went: The Presence Problem in Digitised Travel Writing
“…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
Composing and Inputting Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs with Unicode Control Characters: The Impact of Egyptian OpenType
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 OBU: An Interview with Khemarato Bhikkhu
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
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 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)
The Open Buddhist University
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
From Scanned Travel Books to a Page-Aware Corpus: Testing Microsoft Foundry for Historical Research on Central Asia
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
Mapping Prefectural-Level Financial Mobilisation in Wartime Japan
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