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..
Voyant Tools is a popular website that offers a series of text analysis tools for examining word frequencies, patterns, and … Continue reading The Changing Role of Textile Making: Text Analysis of Digitized “Lienü zhuan” with Voyant Tools (Part I)
My previous post introduced a fundamental bit of knowledge to work with online resources for Chinese Palaeography, namely the difference between graphs … Continue reading Online Resources for Chinese Palaeography – Part Two
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
Basic corpus analysis is an amazing way to start exploring digital humanities. What could be easier? One just needs to … Continue reading Defining word boundaries for Modern and Classical Chinese
In my previous post about the text-matching database BuddhaNexus, I corresponded with project co-director Orna Almogi, who described the promise … Continue reading Text-Matching at the Canonical Crossroads: An Introduction to BuddhaNexus (Part II)
So you have heard about some cool text analysis tools that identify word frequencies, generate word clouds, and look for … Continue reading Data Cleaning Chinese Text with OpenRefine
In the field of early China, the end of the 20th century will be remembered by many as a time … Continue reading Online Resources for Chinese Palaeography, Part One
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
The Chinese Buddhist canon contains canonical Buddhist literature as recognized in East Asia. Early practitioners interacted with one of the … Continue reading A Digital Introduction to the Chinese Buddhist Canon
