Disrupting Digital Knowledge Infrastructures: A Status Quo Survey
We are conducting a global survey about the difficulties facing Humanities scholars and students when working in digital environments when…
Year: 2020
Becoming a PANDiT
This posts introduces PANDiT, aka Prosopographic Database for Indic Texts, a useful tool for any Indologist out there.
The Schedule for the Digital Orientalisms Twitter Conference 2020 (#DOsTC2020)
Today, we have the pleasure to announce the schedule of the Digital Orientalist’s Digital Orientalisms Twitter Conference 2020 (#DOsTC2020) which…
Some Short Reflections on Lists
In the past, the Digital Orientalist celebrated the virtues of brevity by regularly publishing short pieces, thoughts, and reflections. Some…
Re-Discovering MS Zafaran N. 12: A story of the power of social media and on finding lost materials in digital archives
For two years now, I have searched for a manuscript on the Synod of Hattackh of 1576. In the 1956,…
An Introduction to SmartHanzi and DDB Access
SmartHanzi and DDB Access are interesting apps from the same developer which I came across on Twitter a few years…
Brief Notes on OCR and the Automated Transcription of Syriac Books
Recently, I have been experimenting to see how well Google Docs can transcribe and perform OCR on Syriac books in…
The Database of Research on the Imjin War: Some Initial Thoughts
Long term readers will likely be aware of my interest in both bibliographies and databases. I have long been involved…
Dissertating in the Digital Age: Research and Writing Tools for Organization and Productivity
This post was written by guest contributor Bihter Esener. Esener is currently a Freer Visiting Graduate Student Fellow in the…
Some Thoughts on Databases
The state of semi-lockdown in Japan, and with the universities and their libraries all closed, has allowed me some time…