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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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