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.
Imagine an infinite library, housing thousands of Arabic, Persian and Ottoman manuscripts. Works on medicine, astronomy, poetry, philosophy, and law. … Continue reading From Rigid Taxonomies to Networks of Relationships: When the Semantic Web Redesigns Cultural Narratives
This guest contribution was written by Virgine Borges de Castilho Sacoman, MS to PhD student in Sociology at the University … Continue reading Digital Humanities in Motion: When Pop Culture Rewrites Aging
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
This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities) … Continue reading AI Ethics and the Humanities: A Perspective from Buddhist Studies
Those of us who use languages written in the Latin alphabet likely don’t think much about how we input text. … Continue reading Chorded Input and the Japanese Language: An Introduction and Invitation
This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities) … Continue reading Mapping Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing on the Orient
For the past year and a half, I have worked as a digitisation quality assurance and team leader at Royal … Continue reading Digital Storytelling in the Digitisation of Japanese Botanical Specimens in RBG, Kew’s Collections
In my previous post, I wrote about the Sindhi Halchal Archive: a passion project that extends the work of the … Continue reading Sindhi Sanchaya: A Repository of Data about Sindhi Books
Google’s privacy issues are fairly well-known—there is even a Wikipedia page about it. Even if we don’t know the details, … Continue reading Alternatives to Google: Is DuckDuckGo Useful for Research?
In my previous post, I wrote about potentialities: I spoke about what might be doable for the Sindhi presence within … Continue reading Sindhi Halchal Archive: Building on the PG Sindhi Library