The Dunhuang Culture 敦煌文化 Database
Since the last time I covered Dunhuang-related databases to browse online in 2022, a few things have changed. The International … Continue reading The Dunhuang Culture 敦煌文化 Database
Digital Storytelling in the Digitisation of Japanese Botanical Specimens in RBG, Kew’s Collections
For the past year and a half, I have worked as a digitisation quality assurance and team leader at Royal … Continue reading Digital Storytelling in the Digitisation of Japanese Botanical Specimens in RBG, Kew’s Collections
Sindhi Sanchaya: A Repository of Data about Sindhi Books
In my previous post, I wrote about the Sindhi Halchal Archive: a passion project that extends the work of the … Continue reading Sindhi Sanchaya: A Repository of Data about Sindhi Books
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
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
A StoryMap Resource for Studying Early Maritime Asia
This is a guest post by Andrew Chittick. The author bio is below. The Digital Orientalist has proven to be … Continue reading A StoryMap Resource for Studying Early Maritime Asia
Islam West Africa Collection: Dataset, Distant Reading, and Uses of AI for Discourse Analysis
Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC), created and maintained by F. Madore, is an open-access database that provides access to press clippings from the mainstream press in West African (Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo, Niger, Nigeria) as well as Islamic publications, and video recordings, all of those documents related to Islam. Complex tools enable discourse analysis and answer various scientific questions through keywords mapping, topic modelling, sentiment analysis and spatial visualization. Continue reading Islam West Africa Collection: Dataset, Distant Reading, and Uses of AI for Discourse Analysis
An Overview of Digital Tools and Resources for East Asian Studies Reviewed by The Digital Orientalist Members
Since its founding in 2013, The Digital Orientalist has grown from a research blog by Cornelis van Lit to an … Continue reading An Overview of Digital Tools and Resources for East Asian Studies Reviewed by The Digital Orientalist Members
Alternatives to Google: Is DuckDuckGo Useful for Research?
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?
Sindhi Halchal Archive: Building on the PG Sindhi Library
In my previous post, I wrote about potentialities: I spoke about what might be doable for the Sindhi presence within … Continue reading Sindhi Halchal Archive: Building on the PG Sindhi Library
Think Tasks Not Tools: Teaching AI Literacy in East Asian Art History
This guest contribution was written by Dr. Stephanie Santschi, who is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Zurich’s Department … Continue reading Think Tasks Not Tools: Teaching AI Literacy in East Asian Art History
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