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 Ann Marie Davis (The Ohio State University), Katherine Matsuura (Harvard University), and Yukari Sugiyama … Continue reading Visualizing an Online Database for Notable Japanese Collections in North America
Continuing our series of interviews with scholars working in Digital Humanities in Japan, this is the first of a two-part … Continue reading Digital Humanities and Buddhist Studies in Japan: An Interview with Kiyonori Nagasaki (1/2)
Coptic is the last stage of the Egyptian language and is still used at Coptic Christian churches. Coptic uses the … Continue reading Read and Write Coptic on Your Smartphone: Interview with Mina Makar on Coptic Bible, Dictionary, Keyboard, and Agpeya Apps
The new portal ‘Qalamos: connecting manuscript traditions’ provides metadata of oriental manuscripts from more than 25 collections in Germany. I … Continue reading Interviewing Dr Hoffmann-Ruf about “Qalamos: connecting manuscript traditions”
Written by Rosie Maxton. Wellcome Collection comprises close to 1000 Arabic manuscripts, showcasing a vast array of genres, historical periods … Continue reading Exploring Wellcome Collection’s Karshuni Manuscripts
This is a guest post by Udita Das. Jātaka Stories is a free online repository of jātaka tales. Jātakas are … Continue reading Interviewing Dr. Naomi Appleton about Jātaka Stories
The headache of working with archaic Chinese orthographies Technologically, we scholars of the 21st century are spoiled. We sit at … Continue reading Just give me a font!
This is the second post in an interview of Prof. Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent and Prof. David A. Michelson, who were … Continue reading New Working Group for Linked Manuscript Descriptions, part 2
For the past year, questions of how to decolonize the historical records of North Africa have been in the news, … Continue reading Decolonize North Africa’s Historical Records
The first part of this post covered starting a project with eScriptorium and properly segmenting a page to prepare it … Continue reading Introduction to eScriptorium, HTR for Hebrew Manuscripts, part 2
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