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.
An old mantra among digital circles: online resources to access material circulating in digital formats are so numerous that it … Continue reading Shuge: the world’s libraries. Or, just a website that works for you.
Bodies and Structures, a Scalar-based teaching and research platform mainly focused on Japanese spatial histories and their connections to other … Continue reading (Re)Mapping Spatial History: An Overview of the Bodies and Structures Platform
The “Text Encoding Initiative” (TEI) offers the most comprehensive guide to the computerized coding of texts in the humanities field … Continue reading Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for Ottoman Studies
Organizing browser items in a heavy online workflow can present challenges. Opening one tab inevitably leads to opening more tabs … Continue reading Organizing Browser-heavy Workflows
In the mid-90s, I was an undergraduate student taking Latin and Japanese classes. People looked at me as if I … Continue reading Missionary Linguistics – Latin, Portuguese and Japanese resources online
This is the first in a series of interviews with scholars working on Digital Methods for Buddhist Studies. Our initial … Continue reading Online Resources for Buddhist Studies and the Development of Digital Humanities, Past, Present and Future: An Interview with Charles Muller, Editor of the DDB and CJKV-E Dictionaries
By Alexandra Eveleigh, Stephanie Cornwell, and Adrian Plau. Wellcome Collection holds one of the world’s most unique manuscript collections. The … Continue reading Legacy cataloguing and TEI: David Pingree and Wellcome Collection
Infrastructure in academia is what gives cohesion to a subject. It is a meeting place you know you can go … Continue reading Building DH Infrastructure for the Study of Asia, Middle East, and Africa: How they do it in France
This is the second part of a series of posts by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac, based … Continue reading “From Dead-ends into Gateways”: Interview with Dr. Nathan P. Gibson about Syriaca.org, 2nd and Final Part
We are in an age of unprecedented information access. As academics in the humanities, we all have too much information … Continue reading We Need a Better System: Streamlining Academic Digital Workflow from Reading to Writing