Tools for Literature Mapping
In the ever-expanding web of academic literature, exploring the research landscape and searching for publications can often feel complicated, overwhelming, … Continue reading Tools for Literature Mapping
Tag: Digital Humanities
Ancient Egyptian Hieratic Palaeography Database: AKU-PAL
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
Digital Humanities: Unexpected Encounters at DOT 2025
Dr Johannes Thomann (Visiting Researcher, Islamic Studies, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, IAOS; University of Zürich, UZH) is responsible … Continue reading Digital Humanities: Unexpected Encounters at DOT 2025
To Merge or Not to Merge: The Pitfalls of Chinese Tokenization in General-Purpose LLMs
Tokenization, the process of transforming human text into machine-understandable units of meaning (tokens), is a foundational step in language modeling. … Continue reading To Merge or Not to Merge: The Pitfalls of Chinese Tokenization in General-Purpose LLMs
Analyzing Collation Files: Apatosaurus
In my last post, I explored how to collate TEI XML transcriptions of Greek New Testament manuscripts, yielding a TEI … Continue reading Analyzing Collation Files: Apatosaurus
Partition Revisited: Bridging History and Technology to Trace Refugee Rehabilitation
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
Exploring the (Digital) World of Ottoman Turkish Texts: The Digital Ottoman Corpora
It is fascinating to see how Ottoman Turkish texts are transcribed with the help of artificial intelligence (AI)-operated tools, such as Handwritten … Continue reading Exploring the (Digital) World of Ottoman Turkish Texts: The Digital Ottoman Corpora
At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France
As Dominique Stutzmann points out in an article for the renowned French media outlet L’Histoire in 2017, paleography has undergone … Continue reading At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France
Using TEI to study Edward Sylvester Morse’s Japan Diaries in the Peabody Essex Museum Collection (Part 1)
TEI (text-encoding initiative) is a digital humanities method that enriches plain text transcriptions using .xml tags. It is most commonly … Continue reading Using TEI to study Edward Sylvester Morse’s Japan Diaries in the Peabody Essex Museum Collection (Part 1)
Collating Greek Manuscripts
Introduction In my last post, I explored tools in a software package called Criticus that helps move from transcription to … Continue reading Collating Greek Manuscripts
The Digital Orientalist 