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.
For this post, I will be reviewing the new book Among Digitized Manuscripts by C. van Lit (Leiden: Brill, 2020), authored by … Continue reading Review: Among Digitized Manuscripts by L.W.C. van Lit (Leiden: Brill, 2020)
For years, I have explored digitized manuscripts on this website. It left me prepared, three years ago, to embark on … Continue reading Among Digitized Manuscripts: A Book
This is a contribution by Christine Roughan of NYU. Connect with her on Twitter @cmroughan Over the summer of 2019, inspired by the promising results in articles like Romanov et al. 2017, I set out to use the … Continue reading Using Kraken to Train your own OCR Models
Whether we are involved in Japanese Studies or Islamic Studies, Near Eastern Studies or African Studies, we are all likely … Continue reading Making a Basic Textual Analysis program in Python
In the classroom environment, it can be difficult to create engaging materials that allow students to learn about the multi-causal … Continue reading Historical Storytelling with Twine
Users of Google Chrome have long been able to customize their browsing experiences by installing extensions; small pieces of software … Continue reading Creating a “Launcher” Extension for Google Chrome
At Utrecht University, the project ‘Bridging the Gap: Digital Humanities and the Arabic-Islamic corpus’, seeks to “harness state-of-the art … Continue reading DH Project at Utrecht University: Bridging the Gap
By James Harry Morris Previously I uploaded a post about an online calculator that I had created for converting the shakkanhō 尺貫法 … Continue reading Creating an Online Calculator (2): Algorithms and Code
By James Harry Morris Introduction When I was invited to become the editor of the Japan Studies content on Digital … Continue reading Creating an Online Calculator for the Conversion of Shakkanhō (Japanese) Units
In a previous post, I described the preliminary work to do automated analysis on poetry. I now describe the actual … Continue reading Tackling Poetry with Python (2)
The Digital Orientalist 