Notes on the Study of Loma
A script was developed in the 1930’s for the Loma language by Widɔ Zoɓo of Boneketa, Liberia. While it has…
Year: 2018
Proceed with Caution! Identifying Structures using Royal Inscriptions (Part 1)
I’m going to preface this post with a note that I am NOT an archaeologist. I have taken archaeology classes,…
DH Project at Utrecht University: Bridging the Gap
At Utrecht University, the project ‘Bridging the Gap: Digital Humanities and the Arabic-Islamic corpus’, seeks to “harness state-of-the art…
Creating an Online Calculator (2): Algorithms and Code
By James Harry Morris Previously I uploaded a post about an online calculator that I had created for converting the shakkanhō 尺貫法…
Creating an Online Calculator for the Conversion of Shakkanhō (Japanese) Units
By James Harry Morris Introduction When I was invited to become the editor of the Japan Studies content on Digital…
A new year, a new team
This year, The Digital Orientalist will come to life as it never has done before. It will no longer be…
Apps for Learning Cursive Japanese
By James Harry Morris Learning how to read cursive Japanese script (or alternatively cursive Chinese script) is one of the…
Social Media Manager Needed!
Are you good with social media and do you know a fair few things about Digital Humanities? Or are you…
Tackling Poetry with Python (2)
In a previous post, I described the preliminary work to do automated analysis on poetry. I now describe the actual…
Digital Printing of Arabic: The Problem Revisited
In this post I will respond to some points raised by Titus Nemeth. I already discussed his rhetoric so I…