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.
Imagine an infinite library, housing thousands of Arabic, Persian and Ottoman manuscripts. Works on medicine, astronomy, poetry, philosophy, and law. … Continue reading From Rigid Taxonomies to Networks of Relationships: When the Semantic Web Redesigns Cultural Narratives
This post was co-authored with Prof. Du Chunmei (Lingnan University, Department of History). History can feel like a silent discipline, … Continue reading Voices from the Past: Retrieval-Augmented Dialogues with Chinese Historical Figures
This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities) … Continue reading AI Bias-Cancelling for the Interpretation of a Late Qing Dynasty Text
This guest contribution was written by Virgine Borges de Castilho Sacoman, MS to PhD student in Sociology at the University … Continue reading Digital Humanities in Motion: When Pop Culture Rewrites Aging
As a Digital Humanities student working with Hindi-language texts, I expected extracting text from a Hindi PDF to be a … Continue reading Why Extracting Hindi Text from PDFs Is So Much Harder Than English (And How You Can Do It)
In designing an introductory Digital Humanities class, I am often faced with the question of how best to incorporate linguistic … Continue reading Teaching Bengali Digital Texts to Anglophone Undergraduates: What Voyant Reveals about the Infrastructural Bias of DH Tools
This is a guest post by Aizat Ishembieva. This second installment compares the work of Professor Esther Fihl and her … Continue reading The Olufsen Collection: From 19th-Century Expeditions to Digital Museum Collection – Part 2
The database Home In Mists – Oversea edition 白雲深處人家海外站 is an edition based outside of China of a database by … Continue reading The Versatility of the Home in Mists – Oversea Edition
This is a guest post by Saniya Irfan. Digital Humanities in South Asia often begins with negotiating invisibility, the invisibility … Continue reading Scripts That Don’t Fit: The Hidden Bias of NLP in South Asian Languages
The field of Syriac Digital Humanities continues to advance rapidly, moving from basic text recognition (as discussed in my previous … Continue reading Syriac AI Manuscripts and Fragments: Reimagining Digitally the Damaged Past