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 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
We are conducting a global survey about the difficulties facing Humanities scholars and students when working in digital environments when … Continue reading Disrupting Digital Knowledge Infrastructures: A Status Quo Survey
This posts introduces PANDiT, aka Prosopographic Database for Indic Texts, a useful tool for any Indologist out there. Continue reading Becoming a PANDiT
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
The state of semi-lockdown in Japan, and with the universities and their libraries all closed, has allowed me some time … Continue reading Some Thoughts on Databases
This article presents the project of digitization of a large amount of handwritten material that is part of the Fondo Daniélou at Cini Foundation (San Giorgio, Venice). Continue reading Digitizing Indian Music
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
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
This is the first part of a series of posts by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac. This … Continue reading An Introduction to the History of Syriac Digital Humanities
For this post, I will be reviewing the new book Among Digitized Manuscripts by C. van Lit (Leiden: Brill, 2020), authored by … Continue reading Review: Among Digitized Manuscripts by L.W.C. van Lit (Leiden: Brill, 2020)
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