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.
Building off James Harry Morris’s post on Historical Storytelling with Twine in 2019 in which he presented his experience of … Continue reading A Twine Journey to Mecca: Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
From the accidental discovery of a bronze “three-legged cauldron” (ding 鼎) during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han 武漢帝 … Continue reading Digital Resources for Chinese Bronze Research: The Academia Sinica Collection (Part 1)
The release of a public version of OpenAI’s generative AI platform, Chat GPT, at the end of last year has … Continue reading An alternative to the undergraduate research paper: Online Exhibitions with ArtSteps
The following resources are some of the main institutions and libraries for the purpose, but this post can be updated … Continue reading Digital Resources for the Study of Persian Manuscripts
Publishing. It’s one of the most important parts of research in academia. Yet not many programs cater to the specific … Continue reading Nota Bene: Software for Academic Composition
This is a post by DO founder L. W. Cornelis Van Lit Does a research project which produced a large … Continue reading A closer look at a big, classic humanities project
In part 1 of this series, I provided a quick introduction to eScriptorium and the workflow associated with it. This … Continue reading eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 2
The collections of African objects in French museums remain rather unknown. Yet the holdings of some 200 French museums contain … Continue reading African and Oceanian Objects in French Museums: Mapping as a Tool for Rethinking Heritage and Historicizing Objects
This is a guest post by Adam H. Lisbon. Many thanks to James Morris for coordinating it. In August of … Continue reading When CJK Metadata Gets Left Behind
This is an interview with Sun Xiaolin, former M.A. student at Loyola University Chicago and current Ph.D. student at the … Continue reading Digitizing Chinese Minority Textiles: An Interview with Sun Xiaolin