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.
This overview is inspired by Maddalena Poli’s recent post, which (re-)introduces East Asian Studies resources featured in The DO. Since … Continue reading An Overview of Digital Tools and Resources for Central and South Asian Studies Reviewed by The DO Members
One of the biggest challenges of working with large (and often incomplete) collections of data lies in how best to … Continue reading Beyond Rows and Columns: Visualising Data with RAWGraphs
Image taken from DTAB CrossAsia In the third and final part of the series, we present one of CrossAsia’s database … Continue reading From Bonn to Berlin: The Journey of Tibetan Digital Archives (CrossAsia Series Part 3)
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
How do you map 14th-century Buddhist intertextuality? Stanford scholar Elaine Lai shares how she created a digital heatmap to visualize textual connections between the “Tantra of the Sun” and its commentaries, offering new insights into citation patterns and textual authority. Continue reading An Intertextual Heatmap: Tantra of the Sun’s Reception in 14th century Tibet
The article discusses the use of video games as a tool to convey alternative histories and the representation of non-Western cultures in popular games, using “Far Cry 4” as an example. Continue reading Far Cry 4: Deconstructing Hegemonic Narratives Through Games
This post was co-written with Daniel Wojahn. The Oral History of Tibetan Studies (OHTS) project aims to collect and preserve … Continue reading Balancing Innovation and Preservation: Sustainability in the Oral History of Tibetan Studies Project
I want to start with some general questions that many Digital Orientalist contributors will have asked themselves privately or in … Continue reading Low Tech, High Reward? A Report on the Workshop “Making the Most of Digital Humanities for Tibetan Studies”
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
In my last article, I wrote about my experiments to improve the accuracy of a Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) model … Continue reading Transkribus in Practice: Abbreviations
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