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.
Prosopography, at the most general level, is the collective biography of persons of a particular place or period. However, with … Continue reading Jaina Prosopography Project and Online Open-Source Database Construction
The best advice I had when starting out with digital humanities came from David Beavan and was simply to only … Continue reading Time and pragmatism in the digital humanities: TEI and Juxta Commons for South Asian manuscript collation
This posts introduces PANDiT, aka Prosopographic Database for Indic Texts, a useful tool for any Indologist out there. Continue reading Becoming a PANDiT
This article presents the project of digitization of a large amount of handwritten material that is part of the Fondo Daniélou at Cini Foundation (San Giorgio, Venice). Continue reading Digitizing Indian Music
This article gives a basic introduction to photogrammetry by using the Agisoft Metashape software. Continue reading Once upon a Camera…
This article deals with GIS in Classical Indian Studies, focusing on the case-study of “Mapping Vijayanagara.” Continue reading Mapping Ancient Indian Urban Spaces
This post was written by guest contributor Zach Chrisman. Chrisman is a master’s student in Religious Studies at the University of Denver … Continue reading Online Ritual Web Traffic and the Hindu Diaspora
This post gives an overview of some of the cool online resources for Indologists. Continue reading Online Resources for Indian Studies
We have arrived at a point in time where it is relatively easy to establish your very own digital archive, … Continue reading How to build an archive (1)
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