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.
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
Recent years have witnessed a wave of fascinating research findings in both natural and artificial intelligence. While scholars remain cautious … Continue reading Cognitive Stylometry as an LLM-Based Methodology in Chinese Literary Studies
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)
How do you map 14th-century Buddhist intertextuality? Stanford scholar Elaine Lai shares how she created a digital heatmap to visualize textual connections between the “Tantra of the Sun” and its commentaries, offering new insights into citation patterns and textual authority. Continue reading An Intertextual Heatmap: Tantra of the Sun’s Reception in 14th century Tibet
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
In the field of Buddhist art, recent years have seen more and more digitization projects that center around the art … Continue reading The DiGA Project—Digitization of Gandhāran Artefacts: An Interview with Jessie Pons and Cristiano Moscatelli (Part 1)
This is a guest post by Helen Giunashvili | George Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies/Ilia State University Introduction In the … Continue reading Digitized Examples of the 17th-century Georgian-Persian Illuminated Historical Documents from Georgian Repositories
How does Algeria fit into the world of digital humanities? First, we have to determine what we mean, when we … Continue reading A Postcard from the World of Print: Algeria’s Place in the Digital Humanities
This is a guest post by Anastasia Pineschi, International Dunhuang Programme (IDP) Project Manager. Find out more at the end … Continue reading Customising Digital Tools for non-Western Materials: the Launch of the Redeveloped IDP Website
Introduction As the digitization of cultural heritage progresses on both a local and a global level, the importance of digital … Continue reading Exploring Digitized Cultural Heritage Through Search Culture
The Digital Orientalist 