Practical examples and theoretical reflections on the do's and don'ts of using digital tools for your study and research in African, Oriental Studies..
Written by Lara Salha, Harrison Pim, James Gorrie, and Adrian Plau. Wellcome Collection holds a diverse collection of multilingual items, ranging … Continue reading Kitāb or kitaab: improving search and discovery for global languages
Visitors to my personal blog know that I am currently wrestling with a particular Greek biblical tradition of the book … Continue reading Classical Language Tools
Introduction Simon Daisley is an independent researcher of Kalmyk Buddhism and a digital heritage practitioner based in New Zealand. Through … Continue reading Reconstructing Kalmyk Buddhist Monasteries through Digital Modeling: An Interview with Simon Daisley from the Khurul Project
Every humanities researcher dreams of finding keywords in archival documents quickly and easily. Thanks to OCR technology, we have realized … Continue reading Innovative Designs on Ottoman Turkish Search Engines: Wikilala and Muteferriqa
This is the sixth and final post of a series by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac, based on … Continue reading Toward an Ecosystem of the Syriac Digital Humanities: An Interview with George A. Kiraz, 5th and Final Part
In the past year or so I have been seeing and hearing an increasing amount about the capabilities of Google … Continue reading Google Docs and OCR: Some Experiments Transcribing Japanese Language Texts
I am currently working on a research project on the Ashio Copper Mine Pollution Incident (J. Ashio kōdoku jiken 足尾鉱毒事件) … Continue reading Digital Resources for Studying the History of the Ashio Copper Mine
Today’s contribution was written by Greg Paulson. Paulson is a research associate at the Institute for New Testament Textual Research … Continue reading Introduction to the NTVMR
Doing archival research in the 21st century has many advantages. We are no longer confined to working long hours in … Continue reading Personal image management software rec from an art historian: Tropy
Several months ago a rather interesting blog post was brought to my attention. This was a post by Christopher Rose … Continue reading Automatic Arabic Translation Using Google: A Test
