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.
The collections of African objects in French museums remain rather unknown. Yet the holdings of some 200 French museums contain … Continue reading African and Oceanian Objects in French Museums: Mapping as a Tool for Rethinking Heritage and Historicizing Objects
This is a guest post by Adam H. Lisbon. Many thanks to James Morris for coordinating it. In August of … Continue reading When CJK Metadata Gets Left Behind
This is an interview with Sun Xiaolin, former M.A. student at Loyola University Chicago and current Ph.D. student at the … Continue reading Digitizing Chinese Minority Textiles: An Interview with Sun Xiaolin
This is part 2 of my posts on the Syriac materials that I have found in Yale: The Beinecke Rare … Continue reading Flew under the Digital and non-Digital Scholarly Radars: A Mysterious Box of Syriac Fragments at Yale University (Part 2)
The following online roundtable discussion was part of a School of Culture, History, and Language ‘Flagship’ event organised by Christopher … Continue reading Repost of a Roundtable Discussion: ‘Digital Humanities, Digital Communities”
This is the third part of the interview with Arezou Azad, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian … Continue reading Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 3
This is a guest post by Prof. Joseph Dennis. Introduction The Books in China Database (BIC) is designed to address … Continue reading The Books in China Database
After my recent deep dive into Toyo Bunko, in this post I will talk about another great digital tool for … Continue reading Old Maps Online: mapping sites and siting maps
This is a post by guest contributor Mark Boersma. Twitter represents an important networking tool for many researchers and scholarly … Continue reading We Need To Talk About Twitter
The Digital Turn in Early Modern Japanese Studies was held from the 2nd to the 4th of December 2022. The … Continue reading A Critical Introduction to the Repository of Digital Humanities Resources for Early Modern Japanese Literature
The Digital Orientalist 