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.
Building on the conversations initiated under the Future of the Commons (overviews of which can be found here and here), … Continue reading Imagining a Contextual Tech for Indian Languages: A Postcard from Bahu Bhasa 2025
While not readily apparent, the New Testament Virtual Manuscript (NTVMR) room has an API that is publicly accessible. An API, … Continue reading Exploring the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room API
Aksharamukha, a free and open-source transliteration tool supporting 121 scripts and 21 romanization methods, enhances access to multilingual texts and facilitates cross-cultural communication. Continue reading Aksharamukha: The Automated Transliteration Tool to Simplify Script Conversion
This is a guest post by Peichao Qin | University of Cambridge. In my earlier post, I introduced my newly launched “Jingyuan Digital … Continue reading Jingyuan Digital Platform – Font Making and Database Development for Shang Oracle Bones (Part 2)
TEI (text-encoding initiative) is a digital humanities method that enriches plain text transcriptions using .xml tags. It is most commonly … Continue reading Using TEI to study Edward Sylvester Morse’s Japan Diaries in the Peabody Essex Museum Collection (Part 1)
Introduction In my last post, I explored tools in a software package called Criticus that helps move from transcription to … Continue reading Collating Greek Manuscripts
This post was prepared together with Tilman Schalmey. Find here the tutorial files for this post. As digital technologies develop, … Continue reading Introduction to Programming with Chinese
Introduction In my last few posts, I explored how Python could be used to do some codicological analysis of manuscripts … Continue reading Criticus: A tool to move from transcription to collation
This post will take a break from writing about using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room, the topic I covered … Continue reading Using Python to Analyze Greek New Testament Manuscripts
In an earlier post here on The Digital Orientalist, Mariana Zorkina introduced the topic of regular expressions (or in short … Continue reading Some additional thoughts on regular expressions… for text analysis
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