Practical examples and theoretical reflections on the do's and don'ts of using digital tools for your study and research in African, Oriental Studies..
Students, librarians, and non-Sinologists who occassionally interact with Chinese language sources may want to speed up the process of transliterating … Continue reading Some tools for quickly transliterating Chinese characters
In the past, the Digital Orientalist celebrated the virtues of brevity by regularly publishing short pieces, thoughts, and reflections. Some … Continue reading Some Short Reflections on Lists
SmartHanzi and DDB Access are interesting apps from the same developer which I came across on Twitter a few years … Continue reading An Introduction to SmartHanzi and DDB Access
Long term readers will likely be aware of my interest in both bibliographies and databases. I have long been involved … Continue reading The Database of Research on the Imjin War: Some Initial Thoughts
I have found in my short career as an academic that in spite of its growing popularity there is a … Continue reading Some Reflections on COVID-19 and the Digitization of Research and Teaching
The Center for Open Data in the Humanities’ KuroNet Kuzushiji Ninshiki Sābisu (KuroNetくずし字認識サービス) launched late last year. KuroNet is a … Continue reading Cursive Japanese and OCR: Using KuroNet
Introduction Web scraping is a technique that allows us to extract and copy specific pieces of data from a website. … Continue reading Web Scraping with Python for Beginners
As many readers will be aware Social Media provides an excellent forum for sharing research with a wider academic and … Continue reading Japanese Studies and the Digital Humanities: Who to Follow on Twitter in 2020
In the first part of this post, I provided readers with a list of resources for discovering texts and authors … Continue reading Databases and Repositories for the Study of Christian-Muslim Relations in East Asia: A Preliminary List (Part 2)
I am indebted to both the Cadbury Research Library at the University of Birmingham and the Church Mission Society for … Continue reading Photographing Archival Material at the Cadbury Research Library: Some Reflections
