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.
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
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