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.
The first of three articles looking at how the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin’s digital platform CrossAsia is changing the way Asian … Continue reading CrossAsia: A Gateway to Asian Studies in the Digital Age (Part 1)
This is a post by Helen Giunashvili | George Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies/Ilia State University The Georgian manuscript tradition and book … Continue reading Medieval Georgian Manuscripts of Shahnameh Translations with Miniatures at the National Centre of Manuscripts of Georgia (“Rostomiani”)
Readers of The Digital Orientalist, you are among the first to know! Today’s post is dedicated to the release of … Continue reading From Vienna to the World: Launching the First Public Syriac HTR Model on Transkribus
Tokenization, the process of transforming human text into machine-understandable units of meaning (tokens), is a foundational step in language modeling. … Continue reading To Merge or Not to Merge: The Pitfalls of Chinese Tokenization in General-Purpose LLMs
This is a guest post by Joanne Bernardi. Graduate students in the humanities learn early that academic conferences are cornerstones … Continue reading Report on Recent ADHO Annual Conferences: Multilingual DH in Focus
In my last post, I explored how to collate TEI XML transcriptions of Greek New Testament manuscripts, yielding a TEI … Continue reading Analyzing Collation Files: Apatosaurus
In my last post, I discussed the DiGA project with two of its members – Dr Jessie Pons, project leader, … Continue reading The DiGA Project—Digitization of Gandhāran Artefacts – Part 2
Archives and archive building hold great potential within the theory and praxis of digital humanities in India. Sindhi, a minor … Continue reading PG Sindhi Library: Revisiting the Archive after 18 Months
It is fascinating to see how Ottoman Turkish texts are transcribed with the help of artificial intelligence (AI)-operated tools, such as Handwritten … Continue reading Exploring the (Digital) World of Ottoman Turkish Texts: The Digital Ottoman Corpora
This is the English version of the Japanese article at Jimbun Jōhōgaku Geppō (『人文情報学月報』: Digital Humanities Monthly), 159 (1), titled … Continue reading Digital Prosopography of Ancient Egyptian Society Using LOD: The Persons and Names of Middle Kingdom and Early New Kingdom Database
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