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.
Decades ago, one of the main concerns of the cultural heritage community was the lack of digitized data. Although digitization … Continue reading Bridging Narratives and Data: ResearchSpace 4.0.0 and the Power of Knowledge Graphs
In the ever-expanding web of academic literature, exploring the research landscape and searching for publications can often feel complicated, overwhelming, … Continue reading Tools for Literature Mapping
In my last post, I explored how to collate TEI XML transcriptions of Greek New Testament manuscripts, yielding a TEI … Continue reading Analyzing Collation Files: Apatosaurus
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
In March and May 2024, as a Training Fellow of the Centre of Data, Culture, and Society (CDCS) at the … Continue reading Introducing Network Analysis in the Classroom
This is part one of a three-part series on the biases about the Hellenistic Central Asia in generative artificial intelligence (AI) datasets. The first and most glaring use of generative AI involving Hellenistic Central Asia is AI-generated imagery. The history of Hellenistic Central Asia, much like most genres of history, is illustrated through this medium with very little regulation. Continue reading Hellenistic Central Asia through the Eyes of GenAI – Part 1: Images
During the DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion: Graphic Culture Research Grant’s annual research report meeting in November 2023, I had … Continue reading The Hiroshi Komiyama Collection, Database of Character Forms
This is a guest post by Erica Biagetti In my first post as a guest contributor to the Digital Orientalist, I … Continue reading A Parallel Treebank of Speeches by Narendra Modi, PM of India
This is a guest post by Jiajun Zou. See bio at the end of this post. Part I Tianyige Ming … Continue reading Creating the largest Juren Dataset with ChatGPT: A Journey through Digital Humanities. (Part One)
This is a guest post by Özge Eda Kaya (@ozgedakaya on Twitter/X). Nodegoat is a web-based research application framework developed … Continue reading Exploring the Depths of Data: An Introduction to Nodegoat
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