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 contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities) … Continue reading From Print to Place: Creating an Integrative Geolocalization Workflow Using Citizen Scientists and Computer Vision AI
As a Digital Humanities student working with Hindi-language texts, I expected extracting text from a Hindi PDF to be a … Continue reading Why Extracting Hindi Text from PDFs Is So Much Harder Than English (And How You Can Do It)
Celebrity diaries constitute an essential resource for researching modern Japanese history. Scholars examine the diarists’ lives, thoughts, social networks, and … Continue reading Unearthing Modern Japan’s Subterranean Networks with the National Diet Library’s (NDL) Full-Text Search System (Part 3): Celebrity Diaries and Spatial Politics in Wartime Tokyo
Google’s privacy issues are fairly well-known—there is even a Wikipedia page about it. Even if we don’t know the details, … Continue reading Alternatives to Google: Is DuckDuckGo Useful for Research?
The CrossAsia Lab equips researchers in Asian Studies with practical tools to engage with data in more interactive and meaningful … Continue reading Inside CrossAsia’s Lab (Part 2)
Although resources for learning to read or assist with deciphering cursive Japanese script found in historical books and documents are … Continue reading Digital Resources for Reading Japanese Seals
Introduction In 2021, Japan’s NDL launched a project to digitise around 300,000 books (approximately 45 million digital images) in that … Continue reading Unearthing Modern Japan’s Subterranean Networks with the National Diet Library’s (NDL) Full-Text Search System (Part 1): Kugimiya Iwao and the Circles of Orthodox Christians
In my last post, I discussed the DiGA project with two of its members – Dr Jessie Pons, project leader, … Continue reading The DiGA Project—Digitization of Gandhāran Artefacts – Part 2
This article was co-authored by guest contributors Raúl Cervera Álvarez (Universitat de Barcelona) and Celia Gonzalez Diaz (Universitat Autonoma de … Continue reading Aozora Bunko: Notes on Usage
Those who have spoken to me about transcription might know that I swear by Furigana Bunko. Sadly, I rarely find … Continue reading Using Furigana Bunko
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