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.
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)
Introduction Simon Daisley is an independent researcher of Kalmyk Buddhism and a digital heritage practitioner based in New Zealand. Through … Continue reading Reconstructing Kalmyk Buddhist Monasteries through Digital Modeling: An Interview with Simon Daisley from the Khurul Project
There comes a time when using Word or PowerPoint or Excel is not going to be enough to create a … Continue reading Your first computed visualization, or, how to use Python to understand the reception of Bukhari and Muslim Hadith collections
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
Voyant Tools is a popular website that offers a series of text analysis tools for examining word frequencies, patterns, and … Continue reading The Changing Role of Textile Making: Text Analysis of Digitized “Lienü zhuan” with Voyant Tools (Part I)
Part II : Neighbouring Countries and Contemporary artists Abstract Fingernail art is a little known and studied Persian artistic medium, … Continue reading Fingernail Art (II): Three-dimensional Calligraphy and Drawing in the 19th-Century
A data model for modelling and visualizing the structure of books in codex formats has existed since the middle of … Continue reading Codicological Visualization of a Syriac Manuscript with VisCodex
In a previous post I briefly presented some of the richest and most commonly used online resources for Korean Studies. … Continue reading DH in Korea: The Digital Humanities Lab at the Academy of Korean Studies
The Digital Orientalist 