Chinese Language, Japanese Studies, Online Resources

Digital Resources for Japanese Palaeography

This year I have had the pleasure of being involved in the “Tackling Pandemics in Early Modern Japan” transcription project … Continue reading Digital Resources for Japanese Palaeography

Japanese Studies, Online Resources

Digital Resources for the Study of Japanese Archaeology

This post has been contributed by James Loftus. Information about the author is included at the end of the post. … Continue reading Digital Resources for the Study of Japanese Archaeology

Digitization, Japanese Studies, Manchu Studies, Mongolian Language, Mongolian Studies, Online Resources, Sinology

Digitizing the Mongolian Language: An Introduction to the Polyglot “Online Dictionaries and Full-text Search of Mongolian Languages and Written Manchu”

What is the “Online Dictionaries and Full-text Search of Mongolian Languages and Written Manchu”? The Online Dictionaries and Full-text Search … Continue reading Digitizing the Mongolian Language: An Introduction to the Polyglot “Online Dictionaries and Full-text Search of Mongolian Languages and Written Manchu”

Buddhist Studies, Chinese Language, Japanese Studies, Korean Studies, Online Resources, Sinology, Visualization

A Digital Introduction to the Chinese Buddhist Canon

The Chinese Buddhist canon contains canonical Buddhist literature as recognized in East Asia. Early practitioners interacted with one of the … Continue reading A Digital Introduction to the Chinese Buddhist Canon

DH in General, Japanese Studies, Sinology, Syriac Studies, Workflow

Some Short Reflections on Lists

In the past, the Digital Orientalist celebrated the virtues of brevity by regularly publishing short pieces, thoughts, and reflections. Some … Continue reading Some Short Reflections on Lists

Japanese Studies, Online Resources, Sinology

The Database of Research on the Imjin War: Some Initial Thoughts

Long term readers will likely be aware of my interest in both bibliographies and databases. I have long been involved … Continue reading The Database of Research on the Imjin War: Some Initial Thoughts

DH in General, Japanese Studies, Online Resources, Workflow

Digital Humanities Japan: Building Community and Sharing Resources

This week’s post has been contributed by Paula R. Curtis, Hoyt Long, Molly Des Jardin and Mark Ravina. Information about … Continue reading Digital Humanities Japan: Building Community and Sharing Resources

Japanese Studies, OCR, Online Resources, Software, Workflow

Cursive Japanese and OCR: Using KuroNet

The Center for Open Data in the Humanities’ KuroNet Kuzushiji Ninshiki Sābisu (KuroNetくずし字認識サービス) launched late last year. KuroNet is a … Continue reading Cursive Japanese and OCR: Using KuroNet

Coding, DH in General, Japanese Studies, Textual Analysis

Web Scraping with Python for Beginners

Introduction Web scraping is a technique that allows us to extract and copy specific pieces of data from a website. … Continue reading Web Scraping with Python for Beginners