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.
The Resources for Kanjur & Tanjur Studies (rKTs) is an open-access digital platform that is currently the largest database of … Continue reading Resources for Kanjur and Tanjur Studies: Introduction and Review
This is a guest post by Gursimran Kaur Butalia. The Partition of India in 1947 remains a deeply personal and … Continue reading Partition Revisited: Bridging History and Technology to Trace Refugee Rehabilitation
For scholars and students of Syriac and Arabic, the vast digital text library of Archive.org has always held immense potential. … Continue reading Recent Advancements: Unlocking Syriac and Arabic Texts on Archive.org
Overview In June 2023, TOPPAN Corporation released an application for iOS, the Komonjo Camera 古文書カメラ. This was followed by an … Continue reading Komonjo Camera, the AI App for Reading Cursive Japanese Characters
This is a guest post by Jiajun Zou. See bio at the end of this post. Find part one here. Part … Continue reading Creating the largest Juren Dataset with ChatGPT: A Journey through Digital Humanities. (Part Two)
This is a guest post by Jiajun Zou. See bio at the end of this post. Part I Tianyige Ming … Continue reading Creating the largest Juren Dataset with ChatGPT: A Journey through Digital Humanities. (Part One)
This is a guest post by Eric H. C. Chow. For more information, see at the end of this post. … Continue reading An Experiment with Gemini Pro LLM for Chinese OCR and Metadata Extraction
In previous years I have posted some interviews with different projects to trace the history of the Syriac Digital Humanities. … Continue reading An Interview on DASH: Digital Analysis of Syriac Handwriting
This is a guest post by Christopher Francese, Asbury J. Clarke Professor of Classical Studies, Dickinson College francese@dickinson.edu In 2016 … Continue reading The Digitization of a Large Latin-Chinese Dictionary
While others have discussed the possibilities in utilizing Transkribus and other HTR resources in research, I want to briefly discuss … Continue reading Transkribus in the Classroom