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 Aizat Ishembieva. This second installment compares the work of Professor Esther Fihl and her … Continue reading The Olufsen Collection: From 19th-Century Expeditions to Digital Museum Collection – Part 2
The database Home In Mists – Oversea edition 白雲深處人家海外站 is an edition based outside of China of a database by … Continue reading The Versatility of the Home in Mists – Oversea Edition
This overview is inspired by Maddalena Poli’s recent post, which (re-)introduces East Asian Studies resources featured in The DO. Since … Continue reading An Overview of Digital Tools and Resources for Central and South Asian Studies Reviewed by The DO Members
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
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
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
Ancient Egyptian civilization, which flourished in the Nile Valley and the Nile Delta, is widely known for its monumental hieroglyphs … Continue reading Ancient Egyptian Hieratic Palaeography Database: AKU-PAL
Readers of The Digital Orientalist, you are among the first to know! Today’s post is dedicated to the release of … Continue reading From Vienna to the World: Launching the First Public Syriac HTR Model on Transkribus
This is a guest post by Gursimran Kaur Butalia. The Partition of India in 1947 remains a deeply personal and … Continue reading Partition Revisited: Bridging History and Technology to Trace Refugee Rehabilitation
This is a post by contributing writer, Emma Donington-Kiey, an independent researcher and MA graduate of Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies from … Continue reading The Future of Researching Sartorial Japonisme: Using Digital Archives and Other Helpful Tools
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