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..
In early 2021, a new platform, Digital Ottoman Studies (DOS), was established with the aim of contributing to digital humanities … Continue reading Digital Ottoman Studies: A New Force in Ottoman and Turkish Studies
In a piece that I wrote for the Digital Orientalist last year, I compiled a list of digital resources for … Continue reading Minna de honkoku: An Overview and Reflection
My recent posts have focused on the biblical text and ways to access it online. Here I will turn to … Continue reading Biblical Studies: Material Culture Online and in the Classroom
What is the Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries The Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries is an online database featuring more than a … Continue reading Mapping A Thousand Buddhist Monasteries in Mongolia: Introducing the Digital Database “Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries”
A data model for modelling and visualizing the structure of books in codex formats has existed since the middle of … Continue reading Codicological Visualization of a Syriac Manuscript with VisCodex
In a previous post I briefly presented some of the richest and most commonly used online resources for Korean Studies. … Continue reading DH in Korea: The Digital Humanities Lab at the Academy of Korean Studies
Tamil is one of the twenty-two official languages spoken in India and its representation in writing dates back to the … Continue reading Typing in Tamil in contemporary and ancient scripts
In my previous post about the text-matching database BuddhaNexus, I corresponded with project co-director Orna Almogi, who described the promise … Continue reading Text-Matching at the Canonical Crossroads: An Introduction to BuddhaNexus (Part II)
So you have heard about some cool text analysis tools that identify word frequencies, generate word clouds, and look for … Continue reading Data Cleaning Chinese Text with OpenRefine
You can turn any collection of books and articles from Zotero into a website that is easy to search, accessible … Continue reading Turning a Zotero bibliography into an online, browsable catalog
