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
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
This is a guest post by Aizat Ishembieva. The National Museum of Denmark houses one of the most significant 19th-century … Continue reading The Olufsen Collection: From 19th-Century Expeditions to Digital Museum Collection – Part 1
In my last post, I discussed the DiGA project with two of its members – Dr Jessie Pons, project leader, … Continue reading The DiGA Project—Digitization of Gandhāran Artefacts – Part 2
When AI image generator services were opened to the public on the vast web in 2021, they quickly became viral … Continue reading AI, Machine Learning, and Neural Networks: Friends or Foes in the Historical Investigation?
The kingdom of Benin, in what is now central Nigeria, was a powerful African state from the Middle Ages until … Continue reading Digital Benin: bringing together scattered historic Benin objects
The collections of African objects in French museums remain rather unknown. Yet the holdings of some 200 French museums contain … Continue reading African and Oceanian Objects in French Museums: Mapping as a Tool for Rethinking Heritage and Historicizing Objects
Many people may be unaware, but Brazil has the most numerous Japanese community outside Japan, with a population of more … Continue reading The Historical Museum of Japanese Immigration in Brazil – Digital resources for researching Japanese immigration
By Franziska Naether (Leipzig/Stellenbosch) Franziska Naether (PD Dr. phil habil.) is an Egyptologist, museum curator, and digital humanist with a focus … Continue reading Digital Archiving & Curation – Report from a Session at a recent Digital Humanities Conference in Kyoto KUDH)
John Sigmier, Ph.D. student at Pennsylvania University, gives us an insight into an ongoing project to display 3D models of … Continue reading The Importance of Uncertainty: VR Reconstructions of Ancient Buildings
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