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.
“…till 7 in the Morning the 22th, seeing Molalia playn N.N.W. we stood away N.W. and N. about the west … Continue reading Where They Actually Went: The Presence Problem in Digitised Travel Writing
Introduction In 2009, Unicode 5.2.0 encoded 1,071 Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs based on Alan Gardiner’s symbol list (Everson and Richmond 2007). … Continue reading Composing and Inputting Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs with Unicode Control Characters: The Impact of Egyptian OpenType
The Open Buddhist University (OBU) is an unaccredited, freely accessible digital resource founded in 2020. Its mission is to provide … Continue reading The OBU: An Interview with Khemarato Bhikkhu
This is a guest post by Khemarato Bhikkhu. Shortly after ordaining, a young monk in Thailand will be given a … Continue reading The Open Buddhist University
This is a guest piece by Aizat Ishembieva. This post describes how structured text extraction and the creation of a … Continue reading From Scanned Travel Books to a Page-Aware Corpus: Testing Microsoft Foundry for Historical Research on Central Asia
Witnessing Ottoman Studies’ recent integration of AI is exciting for the field’s development in terms of its inclusion of wider, … Continue reading Digital Humanities and Ottoman Studies: A Review
My previous work on Sindhi literature in post-Partition involves PG Sindhi Library, Sindhi Halchal Archive, and Sindhi Sanchaya. Posts dealing … Continue reading Oral Histories from Sindhi Libraries in India: Infrastructures around Sindhi Literature
In this essay, I explore how we can read Indonesian literature in a way that preserves the highly particular and context-bound character of individual literary works while also accounting for the heterogeneity of Indonesian literature as a whole. Continue reading Texts in Their Right Places: A Situated Reading of a Situated Literature
This is a guest post by Damian Mandzunowski. The author bio is below. The premise behind this piece is simple: … Continue reading Digital Curatorship, Handling Special Collections, and Lessons Learned from My Pursuit of Historical Photographs of People Reading in China
Introduction This year’s pieces for Digital Humanities in General have covered various aspects of the practice and theory of Digital … Continue reading Editor’s Digest May 2026: Digital Humanities in General