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.
Call for Papers Abstract deadline: 31 March 2025Date of the conference: 31 May 2025 Submissions We are pleased to announce … Continue reading CFP: The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025
Although resources for learning to read or assist with deciphering cursive Japanese script found in historical books and documents are … Continue reading Digital Resources for Reading Japanese Seals
This is a post by Helen Giunashvili | George Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies/Ilia State University The Georgian manuscript tradition and book … Continue reading Medieval Georgian Manuscripts of Shahnameh Translations with Miniatures at the National Centre of Manuscripts of Georgia (“Rostomiani”)
Readers of The Digital Orientalist, you are among the first to know! Today’s post is dedicated to the release of … Continue reading From Vienna to the World: Launching the First Public Syriac HTR Model on Transkribus
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
Introduction In 2021, Japan’s NDL launched a project to digitise around 300,000 books (approximately 45 million digital images) in that … Continue reading Unearthing Modern Japan’s Subterranean Networks with the National Diet Library’s (NDL) Full-Text Search System (Part 1): Kugimiya Iwao and the Circles of Orthodox Christians
Tokenization, the process of transforming human text into machine-understandable units of meaning (tokens), is a foundational step in language modeling. … Continue reading To Merge or Not to Merge: The Pitfalls of Chinese Tokenization in General-Purpose LLMs
This year’s Editor’s Digest for Chinese Studies falls right after the Chinese New Year, so first of all let me … Continue reading Editor’s Digest January 2025: Chinese Studies
This is part two of a three-part series on the biases about Hellenistic Central Asia in generative artificial intelligence (AI) datasets. Since ChatGPT’s surge of popularity in November 2022, some theorize that generative AI tools could be the answer to uncovering how ancient music could have actually sounded. Continue reading Hellenistic Central Asia through the Eyes of GenAI – Part 2: Music
Background Historical Chinese texts and source notes, preserved in various forms including rare books, special collections, and modern academic databases, … Continue reading Evaluating LLMs for Linked Data Extraction from Chinese Texts: A Comparative Analysis