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Category: DH in Practice

Creating the largest Juren Dataset with ChatGPT: A Journey through Digital Humanities. (Part One)
AI, DH in Practice, New Post, OCR, Sinology, Visualization, Workflow

Creating the largest Juren Dataset with ChatGPT: A Journey through Digital Humanities. (Part One)

This is a guest post by Jiajun Zou. See bio at the end of this post. Part I Tianyige Ming … Continue reading Creating the largest Juren Dataset with ChatGPT: A Journey through Digital Humanities. (Part One)

Exploring the Depths of Data: An Introduction to Nodegoat
Apps, DH in Practice, New Post, Online Resources, Visualization

Exploring the Depths of Data: An Introduction to Nodegoat

This is a guest post by Özge Eda Kaya (@ozgedakaya on Twitter/X). Nodegoat is a web-based research application framework developed … Continue reading Exploring the Depths of Data: An Introduction to Nodegoat

The Magic of Philology and Indexing
Chinese Language, Conference Proceedings, DH in Practice, Sinology

The Magic of Philology and Indexing

Tracking Drug Names Across Language, Time, Space and Knowledge Domains to Produce New Visions of Traditional Medicine This is a … Continue reading The Magic of Philology and Indexing

Exploring AI-Driven Tools for Research in Humanistic Buddhism: A Comparative Evaluation
AI, Buddhist Studies, DH in Practice, New Post

Exploring AI-Driven Tools for Research in Humanistic Buddhism: A Comparative Evaluation

This is a guest post by William Chong. For more information, see at the end of this post. Introduction Our … Continue reading Exploring AI-Driven Tools for Research in Humanistic Buddhism: A Comparative Evaluation

Video Games and the Humanities: A Call for Scholarly Games
DH in Practice, Islamic Studies, New Post, Ottoman Studies

Video Games and the Humanities: A Call for Scholarly Games

Last spring I wrote a post on why video games should be considered valued tools for teaching non-Western narratives of … Continue reading Video Games and the Humanities: A Call for Scholarly Games

Introduction to Programming with Chinese
Chinese Language, Coding, DH in Practice, New Post, Sinology, Workflow

Introduction to Programming with Chinese

This post was prepared together with Tilman Schalmey. Find here the tutorial files for this post. As digital technologies develop, … Continue reading Introduction to Programming with Chinese

The Shang Dynasty Has An Unexpected Ally: AI
AI, DH in Practice, Sinology

The Shang Dynasty Has An Unexpected Ally: AI

This is an account based on the articles linked throughout and at the end of the article. I thank Kevin … Continue reading The Shang Dynasty Has An Unexpected Ally: AI

Ainu Fish Skin Robes and 3D Digital Animation for Sustainable Fashion Production: An Interview with Ana Cordoba Crespo
DH in Practice, Japanese Studies, Software

Ainu Fish Skin Robes and 3D Digital Animation for Sustainable Fashion Production: An Interview with Ana Cordoba Crespo

This is an interview by contributing writer, Emma Donington Kiey, with fashion designer Ana Cordoba Crespo, on her involvement with … Continue reading Ainu Fish Skin Robes and 3D Digital Animation for Sustainable Fashion Production: An Interview with Ana Cordoba Crespo

Low Tech, High Reward? A Report on the Workshop “Making the Most of Digital Humanities for Tibetan Studies”
DH in Practice, Events & Conferences, Online Resources, Tibetan Studies, Visualization, Workflow

Low Tech, High Reward? A Report on the Workshop “Making the Most of Digital Humanities for Tibetan Studies”

I want to start with some general questions that many Digital Orientalist contributors will have asked themselves privately or in … Continue reading Low Tech, High Reward? A Report on the Workshop “Making the Most of Digital Humanities for Tibetan Studies”

Artificial Intelligence for Syriac on Google Bard (/Gemini) – Preliminary Tests (Part2)
AI, DH in General, DH in Practice, Machine Learning, Online Resources, Syriac Studies

Artificial Intelligence for Syriac on Google Bard (/Gemini) – Preliminary Tests (Part2)

In my previous post (Part 1: here), I presented some preliminary tests of chatting in Classical Syriac with Google Bard (/Gemini) … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence for Syriac on Google Bard (/Gemini) – Preliminary Tests (Part2)

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