Using Voyant Tools with Historical Japanese Texts
Lu Wang’s recent two-piece series (part 1 and part 2) on using Voyant Tools to analyse Chinese language texts captured … Continue reading Using Voyant Tools with Historical Japanese Texts
Author: James Harry Morris
Basic Python for Japanese Studies: Using fugashi for Text Segmentation
Look at the following Japanese sentence from Uchimura Kanzō’s 内村鑑三 Denmarukukoku no hanashi デンマルク国の話 (1911): 今日は少しこの世のことについてお話しいたそうと欲(おも)います。 Full text accessible here. … Continue reading Basic Python for Japanese Studies: Using fugashi for Text Segmentation
Library Holdings, Duplication and Digitization: Resources on the History of the Ashio Copper Mine
Earlier this year I published a short piece in The Digital Orientalist entitled “Digital Resources for Studying the History of … Continue reading Library Holdings, Duplication and Digitization: Resources on the History of the Ashio Copper Mine
Google Docs and OCR: Some Experiments Transcribing Japanese Language Texts
In the past year or so I have been seeing and hearing an increasing amount about the capabilities of Google … Continue reading Google Docs and OCR: Some Experiments Transcribing Japanese Language Texts
Digital Resources for Studying the History of the Ashio Copper Mine
I am currently working on a research project on the Ashio Copper Mine Pollution Incident (J. Ashio kōdoku jiken 足尾鉱毒事件) … Continue reading Digital Resources for Studying the History of the Ashio Copper Mine
Making Custom Keyboard Layouts to Transliterate East Asian Languages
Many readers will likely be aware of the Digital Orientalist’s Keyboard Layouts (launched in 2014 and improved upon in 2017) … Continue reading Making Custom Keyboard Layouts to Transliterate East Asian Languages
Minna de honkoku: An Overview and Reflection
In a piece that I wrote for the Digital Orientalist last year, I compiled a list of digital resources for … Continue reading Minna de honkoku: An Overview and Reflection
Book and Document Scanning with the CZUR Aura X Pro
I recently purchased a CZUR Aura X Pro to scan documents and books in my office, home, and at libraries … Continue reading Book and Document Scanning with the CZUR Aura X Pro
Digital Resources for Japanese Palaeography
This year I have had the pleasure of being involved in the “Tackling Pandemics in Early Modern Japan” transcription project … Continue reading Digital Resources for Japanese Palaeography
Some tools for quickly transliterating Chinese characters
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
