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 Laurent Van Cutsem (Ghent University). Part 2 can be read here. Part I: The … Continue reading The Database of Medieval Chinese Texts: A Critical Overview (part one)
This is guest post by Mark Boersma. Recently I came across a website of a project on manuscripts from Southeast … Continue reading DREAMSEA
Greg Paulson has already written a very helpful introduction to the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (NTVMR) as a guest … Continue reading A Guide for Using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (Part 1)
The following resources are some of the main institutions and libraries for the purpose, but this post can be updated … Continue reading Digital Resources for the Study of Persian Manuscripts
This is a post by DO founder L. W. Cornelis Van Lit Does a research project which produced a large … Continue reading A closer look at a big, classic humanities project
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
The Digital Orientalist 