Digital Humanities and Ottoman Studies: A Review

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

Ottoman Studies

From Coordinates to Connections: Mapping People and Places in Ottoman Turkish Texts

Introduction In my previous work exploring the first volume of Künhü’l-Ahbar, Gelibolulu Mustafa Âlî’s work on history and geography from … Continue reading From Coordinates to Connections: Mapping People and Places in Ottoman Turkish Texts

Ottoman Studies, Topics, Workflow

From Text to Map: A Reproducible Geocoding Pipeline for Ottoman Studies

This paper presents a computational pipeline for working with spatial data in Ottoman Turkish, from extracting place names via named-entity … Continue reading From Text to Map: A Reproducible Geocoding Pipeline for Ottoman Studies

Buddhist Studies, Indian Studies, Mongolian Studies, Online Resources, South Asian Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, Tibetan Studies

An Overview of Digital Tools and Resources for Central and South Asian Studies Reviewed by The DO Members

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

Central Asian Studies, Editor's Digest, New Post, South Asian Studies

Editor’s Digest March 2025: Central and South Asian Studies 1

It has been almost a year since my last Editor’s Digest and in that time there have been a few … Continue reading Editor’s Digest March 2025: Central and South Asian Studies 1

New Post, OCR, Online Resources, South Asian Studies

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

Japanese Studies, Online Resources

The Future of Researching Sartorial Japonisme: Using Digital Archives and Other Helpful Tools

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

African Studies, Archiving, Central Asian Studies, DH in General, DH in Practice, Digital Cartography, Iranian Studies, Korean Studies, Online Resources, Software, South Asian Studies, Topics, Visualization

The Digital Cold War and Decolonization: Archives, Methods, and Tools

Introduction Up until a few years ago, the history of the Cold War was dominated by interpretations that focused solely … Continue reading The Digital Cold War and Decolonization: Archives, Methods, and Tools

Chinese Language, DH in Practice, Digitization, New Post, Sinology

Digital Resources for Chinese Bronze Research: The Academia Sinica Collection (Part 2)

Part I of this two-part assessment of the Academia Sinica’s bronze inscription research tools examined key features of the ‘Shang … Continue reading Digital Resources for Chinese Bronze Research: The Academia Sinica Collection (Part 2)

DH in Practice, Digital Cartography, Online Resources, Ottoman Studies, Visualization

MapHub: A Brief Tutorial

MapHub allows users to make either thematic or regional maps using Geographic Information Systems as an interactive map. It provides … Continue reading MapHub: A Brief Tutorial