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 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
This is a guest post by Helen Giunashvili | George Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies/Ilia State University Introduction In the … Continue reading Digitized Examples of the 17th-century Georgian-Persian Illuminated Historical Documents from Georgian Repositories
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)
This is a guest post by Peichao Qin | University of Cambridge. Tired of struggling to find and type out complex oracle … Continue reading Jingyuan Digital Platform: Font Making and Database Development for Shang Oracle Bones (Part 1)
This is a follow-up to part one on the “Future of the Commons” conference published earlier this week. While that … Continue reading Archives in Indian Languages as Digital Commons in India
With recent advancements in AI, including developments by Sarvam AI and Hanooman AI, creating a lot of hype around large … Continue reading AI and Indian Languages: Wishful Thinking?
It has been another busy and exciting year for The Digital Orientalist. Our 10th anniversary was a special occasion, marked … Continue reading Introducing The Digital Orientalist 2024/2025 Team
Since 2022, DISTAM (DIgital STudies Africa, Asia, Middle East) has been a consortium of the French research infrastructure Huma-Num. It … Continue reading The Consortium DISTAM (DIgital STudies Africa, Asia, Middle East): structuring DH in areal studies in France