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.
This is the English version of the Japanese article at Jimbun Jōhōgaku Geppō (『人文情報学月報』: Digital Humanities Monthly), 159 (1), titled … Continue reading Digital Prosopography of Ancient Egyptian Society Using LOD: The Persons and Names of Middle Kingdom and Early New Kingdom Database
Aksharamukha, a free and open-source transliteration tool supporting 121 scripts and 21 romanization methods, enhances access to multilingual texts and facilitates cross-cultural communication. Continue reading Aksharamukha: The Automated Transliteration Tool to Simplify Script Conversion
This is a guest post by Peichao Qin | University of Cambridge. In my earlier post, I introduced my newly launched “Jingyuan Digital … Continue reading Jingyuan Digital Platform – Font Making and Database Development for Shang Oracle Bones (Part 2)
This is a guest post by Enfu Zhang. See author bio at the end of the page. As the Tangut … Continue reading A Brief Introduction to The Index of Tangut Literature 西夏文獻目錄 Database
Introduction In my last post, I explored tools in a software package called Criticus that helps move from transcription to … Continue reading Collating Greek Manuscripts
In the field of Buddhist art, recent years have seen more and more digitization projects that center around the art … Continue reading The DiGA Project—Digitization of Gandhāran Artefacts: An Interview with Jessie Pons and Cristiano Moscatelli (Part 1)
The Malian radio station in Kayes, close to the Senegalese border, was founded in 1988, as part of an Italian … Continue reading Digitising the Archives of a Rural Radio in Mali: A Transnational Project
During the DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion: Graphic Culture Research Grant’s annual research report meeting in November 2023, I had … Continue reading The Hiroshi Komiyama Collection, Database of Character Forms
In the first post of this series, I introduced the notion of formularity in oral poetry along with a new … Continue reading Combining Digital Resources to Investigate the Oral-formulaic Diction of Sanskrit Texts (Part 2)
In my previous posts on The Digital Orientalist, I introduced two types of linguistic resources dedicated to the study of … Continue reading Combining Digital Resources to Investigate the Oral-formulaic Diction of Sanskrit Texts (Part 1)
The Digital Orientalist 