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.
KITAB project is developing a corpus of Arabic texts to which they apply digital methods in such a way that … Continue reading An interview with Professor Sarah Savant about KITAB project, part 1
Sometimes I miss watching movies with commercial interruptions, at the theater or on television. Not only were they a great … Continue reading Old Chinese Prêt-à-porter. A double-edged sword.
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
The volume of digitally available Japanese research materials and the databases that hold them are increasing by the year. This … Continue reading “I Just Want the Data!”: A Short Guide to GSI Japan for Non-Japanese-Speaking Users
Speeding up a workforce by getting help, ideas, or information from a large audience over the Internet, via a website, … Continue reading Crowdsourcing for Ottoman Studies: Zooniverse
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
When I write posts about Digital Humanities, be that here or in my blog in Russian, I tend to talk … Continue reading Can we really trust Digital Humanities?
The Algerian Scientific Journals Platform (ASJP) is an electronic publishing platform developed and managed by the Research Center for Scientific and Technical Information (CERIST) of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria. Continue reading Decolonize University-Based Journals
I believe that I am not the only person who often ends up having multiple tabs open on my browser … Continue reading A Solution for the Mess of Online Bookmarking?
This week’s guest contribution was organized by our Editor for Northeast African Studies, So Miyagawa, and was written by Lance … Continue reading An Introduction to Coptic Scriptorium
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