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 contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities) … Continue reading From Print to Place: Creating an Integrative Geolocalization Workflow Using Citizen Scientists and Computer Vision AI
This is the second and final part of a contribution based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual … Continue reading Comparing Sentiments in Yuan Zhen’s and Bai Juyi’s Poetry: A Computational Analysis Across Time and Space (Part 2)
This is the first part of a contribution based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 … Continue reading Comparing Sentiments in Yuan Zhen’s and Bai Juyi’s Poetry: A Computational Analysis Across Time and Space (Part 1)
This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities) … Continue reading Mapping Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing on the Orient
Introduction A fundamental question in the history of science from antiquity to the premodern era is how people organized knowledge, … Continue reading M-Classi: A Digital Tool for the Classification of Sciences in Islam and Beyond
This is a guest post by Peichao Qin | University of Cambridge. In my earlier post, I introduced my newly launched “Jingyuan Digital … Continue reading Jingyuan Digital Platform – Font Making and Database Development for Shang Oracle Bones (Part 2)
The kingdom of Benin, in what is now central Nigeria, was a powerful African state from the Middle Ages until … Continue reading Digital Benin: bringing together scattered historic Benin objects
Introduction Up until a few years ago, the history of the Cold War was dominated by interpretations that focused solely … Continue reading The Digital Cold War and Decolonization: Archives, Methods, and Tools
This is a guest post by Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh@ruthmostern Like all terms for disciplines and methodologies, the digital … Continue reading Quantitative Scholarship as “Low Tech” Digital Humanities
Knight Lab, produced by Northwestern University, is a community of designers, developers, students, and educators working on experiments designed to … Continue reading Knight Lab JS and Storytelling Tools
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