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 Partition of Colonial Punjab in 1947 was one of the most significant moments in South Asian and global history. … Continue reading Partition Chronicles: Navigating Punjab’s Historical Repositories
The Himalayan region has consistently been the subject of various external imaginations. For example, since the publication of James Hilton’s … Continue reading Vlogging as a Multimodal Way of Knowing and Acting: Some Reflections from the Trans-Himalayan Context
This is a guest post by Erica Biaggetti WordNets are valuable resources in linguistics, offering structured and comprehensive databases that … Continue reading The Sanskrit WordNet: a new database for the study of the Sanskrit lexicon
Introduction Up until a few years ago, the history of the Cold War was dominated by interpretations that focused solely … Continue reading The Digital Cold War and Decolonization: Archives, Methods, and Tools
OCR of historical printing in Bengali using segmentation and recognition models trained in Kraken from an annotated dataset of Bengali texts published between 1860 and 1940. Continue reading eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 3
In January 2023, Ladakh Archaeology was launched. This is to date the largest database on the heritage of Ladakh, located … Continue reading Ladakh Archaeology: Introduction and Review
This is guest post by Mark Boersma. Recently I came across a website of a project on manuscripts from Southeast … Continue reading DREAMSEA
Oh great, yet another podcast! Like many researchers, I find myself listening to more diverse types of academic media in … Continue reading Podcasting as Digital Storytelling in Research and Outreach
In part 1 of this series, I provided a quick introduction to eScriptorium and the workflow associated with it. This … Continue reading eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 2
The following online roundtable discussion was part of a School of Culture, History, and Language ‘Flagship’ event organised by Christopher … Continue reading Repost of a Roundtable Discussion: ‘Digital Humanities, Digital Communities”