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.
KITAB project is developing a corpus of Arabic texts to which they apply digital methods in such a way that … Continue reading An interview with Professor Sarah Savant about KITAB project, part 1
Speeding up a workforce by getting help, ideas, or information from a large audience over the Internet, via a website, … Continue reading Crowdsourcing for Ottoman Studies: Zooniverse
This week’s guest contribution was organized by our Editor for Northeast African Studies, So Miyagawa, and was written by Lance … Continue reading An Introduction to Coptic Scriptorium
Following my first post for the Digital Orientalist on the topic of OpenRefine, in this post I would like to share … Continue reading Data Cleaning Chinese Text with OpenRefine: Sentence Filtering
Synopses represent an important and user-friendly tool for the comparison of versions of biblical texts. Whether for deepening one’s own … Continue reading Easily Creating Synopses for Biblical Languages in Different Directions
Lu Wang’s recent two-piece series (part 1 and part 2) on using Voyant Tools to analyse Chinese language texts captured … Continue reading Using Voyant Tools with Historical Japanese Texts
Voyant Tools is a website that allows text analysis in multiple languages with handy, easy-to-learn digital tools. In my earlier … Continue reading The Changing Role of Textile Making: Text Analysis of Digitized “Lienü zhuan” with Voyant Tools (Part II)
Visitors to my personal blog know that I am currently wrestling with a particular Greek biblical tradition of the book … Continue reading Classical Language Tools
The first time I attempted to integrate digital tools into my research, I had a common experience: I had my … Continue reading Seeing the Forest from the Trees: A Reflection on the Challenges of Digital Analysis in Buddhist Studies
Today’s contribution was written by Greg Paulson. Paulson is a research associate at the Institute for New Testament Textual Research … Continue reading Introduction to the NTVMR
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