The epic world of Djibril Tamsir Niane (1932-2021)
One of Guinea’s foremost scholars passed away in March of this year at the age of 89 from COVID-19. Djibril…
Month: May 2021
Cultural Heritage Online: What do we lose when exhibitions go digital?
For the past decade, cultural heritage institutions across the globe have been dabbling with the digital realm by employing multimedia…
Some Reflections on Online Resources for Chinese Palaeography
My previous posts introduced a series of online resources and databases that have become essential tools for the study of…
Technological Threats to Academic Publishing
This is a short and pessimistic view on what could be out there in the near future that seriously impedes…
Seeing the Forest from the Trees: A Reflection on the Challenges of Digital Analysis in Buddhist Studies
The first time I attempted to integrate digital tools into my research, I had a common experience: I had my…
Basic Python for Japanese Studies: Using fugashi for Text Segmentation
Look at the following Japanese sentence from Uchimura Kanzō’s 内村鑑三 Denmarukukoku no hanashi デンマルク国の話 (1911): 今日は少しこの世のことについてお話しいたそうと欲(おも)います。 Full text accessible here.…
The Pote Collection of Islamic Manuscripts: The Highlights of King’s part (I)
The Pote collection contains many textually useful manuscripts especially in the field of the history of India; however, although most…