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 is a guest post by Laurent Van Cutsem (Ghent University). Part II: The Database of Medieval Chinese Texts: A Critical … Continue reading The Database of Medieval Chinese Texts: A Critical Overview (part two)
Knight Lab, produced by Northwestern University, is a community of designers, developers, students, and educators working on experiments designed to … Continue reading Knight Lab JS and Storytelling Tools
Recently, a new project aiming at collecting and publicizing documents and books related to nikkei (descendants of Japanese emigrants) in … Continue reading Sources for Nikkei Documents in Brazil
Part I of this two-part assessment of the Academia Sinica’s bronze inscription research tools examined key features of the ‘Shang … Continue reading Digital Resources for Chinese Bronze Research: The Academia Sinica Collection (Part 2)
OCR of historical printing in Bengali using segmentation and recognition models trained in Kraken from an annotated dataset of Bengali texts published between 1860 and 1940. Continue reading eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 3
This is a guest post by Sarah Blake LaRose. As a scholar of biblical studies who is blind, I often … Continue reading Accessibility of Texts and Tools in Ancient Studies: Reframing the Discussion
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
Reconstruction has always been part of the practice of art historians, archaeologists, and artists. Even as far back as the … Continue reading Procreate and the power of visualization tools
This is a guest post by Laurent Van Cutsem (Ghent University). Part 2 can be read here. Part I: The … Continue reading The Database of Medieval Chinese Texts: A Critical Overview (part one)
This is guest post by Mark Boersma. Recently I came across a website of a project on manuscripts from Southeast … Continue reading DREAMSEA
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