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.
Introduction: The READ Workbench and its Potential The READ (‘Research Environment for Ancient Documents’) Workbench, originally designed for interpreting and … Continue reading ‘READ Workbench (part 2): Digital Repatriation, Pedagogy and Transnational Heritage’
The technology of Natural Language Processing (NLP) identifies named entities, which are words or phrases referring to specific people, places, … Continue reading A Review of MARKUS: More than Marking Up Classical Chinese
In my previous post on how to use the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (NTVMR), I walked through the process … Continue reading A Guide for Using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (Part 2)
This is a guest post by Sarah Blake LaRose. As a scholar of biblical studies who is blind, I often … Continue reading Accessibility of Texts and Tools in Ancient Studies: Reframing the Discussion
This is guest post by Mark Boersma. Recently I came across a website of a project on manuscripts from Southeast … Continue reading DREAMSEA
This is a guest post by Aleksandra Piskunova. Have you ever wondered how readable texts are? What even makes a … Continue reading Measuring Readability of Texts: Theory and Practice (Part 1)
Greg Paulson has already written a very helpful introduction to the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (NTVMR) as a guest … Continue reading A Guide for Using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (Part 1)
This is part 2 of my posts on the Syriac materials that I have found in Yale: The Beinecke Rare … Continue reading Flew under the Digital and non-Digital Scholarly Radars: A Mysterious Box of Syriac Fragments at Yale University (Part 2)
This is the third part of the interview with Arezou Azad, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian … Continue reading Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 3
This guest contribution is written by Anna Oskina. Introduction Among other things, the digital humanities deals with individual items, which … Continue reading Genius loci: extracting names and places from Japanese texts
The Digital Orientalist 