Running IIIF Locally: A Simple Setup Guide
Introduction Many of the fields of study here on The Digital Orientalist rely heavily on images hosted online. In textual … Continue reading Running IIIF Locally: A Simple Setup Guide
Category: Digitization
The Hong Kong Chinese Merchants Collection: An Introduction and its Potential Applications
This article was written by Contributor for Northeast Asian Studies, Brian Tsz Ho Wong, and Guest Contributor, Curtis Sai Hung … Continue reading The Hong Kong Chinese Merchants Collection: An Introduction and its Potential Applications
De-Silencing History: From Private Papers to Public Data in the Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran Project
This is a post by Zhaleh Nayebossadrian | Sapienza University of Rome Introduction: The Digital Turn in Persian Persian Studies, … Continue reading De-Silencing History: From Private Papers to Public Data in the Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran Project
Current Trends in Digital Corpora and Manuscript Archives of Classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez)
Classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez: ግዕዝ Gəʽ(ə)z), one of the classical written languages preserved on the African continent, has sustained religious and … Continue reading Current Trends in Digital Corpora and Manuscript Archives of Classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez)
OH in DH: Listening to Memory in the Age of the Digital
This is a guest post by Saniya Irfan. Studies in Digital Humanities (DH) constantly illustrate that the discipline cannot be confined … Continue reading OH in DH: Listening to Memory in the Age of the Digital
Seeing the Text Arranged: Using Omeka to Critically Engage with Bengali Language Texts
In my previous post, I discussed how using Voyant reveals the infrastructural bias of DH tools when confronted with an … Continue reading Seeing the Text Arranged: Using Omeka to Critically Engage with Bengali Language Texts
Sinhala Manuscripts at Wellcome Collection: Collaborative Practice and Cultural Heritage
Over the last few years, a collaborative project has been developing between the Sinhala Buddhist organisations the International Centre for … Continue reading Sinhala Manuscripts at Wellcome Collection: Collaborative Practice and Cultural Heritage
Imagining a Contextual Tech for Indian Languages: A Postcard from Bahu Bhasa 2025
Building on the conversations initiated under the Future of the Commons (overviews of which can be found here and here), … Continue reading Imagining a Contextual Tech for Indian Languages: A Postcard from Bahu Bhasa 2025
Digital Storytelling in the Digitisation of Japanese Botanical Specimens in RBG, Kew’s Collections
For the past year and a half, I have worked as a digitisation quality assurance and team leader at Royal … Continue reading Digital Storytelling in the Digitisation of Japanese Botanical Specimens in RBG, Kew’s Collections
From Bonn to Berlin: The Journey of Tibetan Digital Archives (CrossAsia Series Part 3)
Image taken from DTAB CrossAsia In the third and final part of the series, we present one of CrossAsia’s database … Continue reading From Bonn to Berlin: The Journey of Tibetan Digital Archives (CrossAsia Series Part 3)