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.
In part 1 of this series, I provided a quick introduction to eScriptorium and the workflow associated with it. This … Continue reading eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 2
This is part 2 of my posts on the Syriac materials that I have found in Yale: The Beinecke Rare … Continue reading Flew under the Digital and non-Digital Scholarly Radars: A Mysterious Box of Syriac Fragments at Yale University (Part 2)
The following online roundtable discussion was part of a School of Culture, History, and Language ‘Flagship’ event organised by Christopher … Continue reading Repost of a Roundtable Discussion: ‘Digital Humanities, Digital Communities”
This is the third part of the interview with Arezou Azad, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian … Continue reading Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 3
After my recent deep dive into Toyo Bunko, in this post I will talk about another great digital tool for … Continue reading Old Maps Online: mapping sites and siting maps
This is a post by Elene Giunashvil, guest contributor for Iranian Studies for 22-23 Georgia’s cultural past, both as a … Continue reading Persian Illuminated Historical Documents of Safavid Period from Georgian Depositories
In the second part of our exploration of the Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database 殷墟甲骨文數據庫 (YOD), we’ll continue our … Continue reading Cracking the Oracle Bones: The Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database (Part 2)
As promised previously, in this post I am leading you in a deep dive into a major digital archive I … Continue reading The Toyo Bunko Archive: a source of joy and torment
State-of-the-art OCR engines use trainable models to perform two consecutive tasks that produce machine-actionable transcriptions. They first segment the position … Continue reading eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 1
This is the second part of an interview with Arezou Azad, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian … Continue reading Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 2
The Digital Orientalist 