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Category: Workflow

Principles for Creating Lasting Digital Archives: A Researcher’s Perspective
Conference Proceedings, DH in Practice, Workflow

Principles for Creating Lasting Digital Archives: A Researcher’s Perspective

This is a guest post by Amy E. Harth, PhD. Bio at the end of the post. Cover photo by … Continue reading Principles for Creating Lasting Digital Archives: A Researcher’s Perspective

Creating the largest Juren Dataset with ChatGPT: A Journey through Digital Humanities. (Part One)
AI, DH in Practice, New Post, OCR, Sinology, Visualization, Workflow

Creating the largest Juren Dataset with ChatGPT: A Journey through Digital Humanities. (Part One)

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)

Introduction to Programming with Chinese
Chinese Language, Coding, DH in Practice, New Post, Sinology, Workflow

Introduction to Programming with Chinese

This post was prepared together with Tilman Schalmey. Find here the tutorial files for this post. As digital technologies develop, … Continue reading Introduction to Programming with Chinese

Low Tech, High Reward? A Report on the Workshop “Making the Most of Digital Humanities for Tibetan Studies”
DH in Practice, Events & Conferences, Online Resources, Tibetan Studies, Visualization, Workflow

Low Tech, High Reward? A Report on the Workshop “Making the Most of Digital Humanities for Tibetan Studies”

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”

Archives Portal Europe: an invaluable tool for digital archival research
DH in Practice, Online Resources, Teaching, Workflow

Archives Portal Europe: an invaluable tool for digital archival research

This is a guest post by Anna Batzeli. This post introduces the Archives Portal Europe, an online archival repository which … Continue reading Archives Portal Europe: an invaluable tool for digital archival research

Online Resources for Chinese Palaeography. Yes, again! 
DH in Practice, Sinology, Workflow

Online Resources for Chinese Palaeography. Yes, again! 

When I joined the Digital Orientalist, I did so motivated by the desire to share with colleagues in Chinese studies … Continue reading Online Resources for Chinese Palaeography. Yes, again! 

El Archivo de las Índias (the General Archive of the Indies) and the PARES Project: A Brief Introduction and Review
Japanese Studies, Online Resources, Workflow

El Archivo de las Índias (the General Archive of the Indies) and the PARES Project: A Brief Introduction and Review

This is a guest post by Raúl Cervera, with special thanks to David Perez Arcé. See information about the author … Continue reading El Archivo de las Índias (the General Archive of the Indies) and the PARES Project: A Brief Introduction and Review

MARKUS for Korean studies
DH in Practice, Korean Studies, Online Resources, Software, Textual Analysis, Workflow

MARKUS for Korean studies

Scholars working in the field of Korean studies have seen remarkable transformations in the way historical research is conducted. The … Continue reading MARKUS for Korean studies

Train Your Own OCR/HTR Models with Kraken, part 2
DH in Practice, Digitization, HTR, OCR, Online Resources, Software, Textual Analysis, Workflow

Train Your Own OCR/HTR Models with Kraken, part 2

Learn about Kraken’s segmentation model and the process of training our own custom segmentation models for layout analysis tasks. Continue reading Train Your Own OCR/HTR Models with Kraken, part 2

Resource for Teaching Asia
Online Resources, Teaching, Workflow

Resource for Teaching Asia

We emerging scholars have all been there. It was either when applying for a job, or after starting a new … Continue reading Resource for Teaching Asia

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