What We Hold and What We Must Pass On: A Review of Digitization of Manuscripts at IGNCA in India
A post by our guest contributor, Shruti Dixit, a Ph.D. candidate in the Divinity School at the University of St.…
Month: November 2021
Minna de Honkoku and the Cambridge Summer School in Japanese Early Modern Palaeography: An Interview, Part 1
Long term readers of the Digital Orientalist will likely remember pieces that I wrote on “Digital Resources for Japanese Palaeography”…
An interview with Professor Sarah Savant about KITAB project, part 1
KITAB project is developing a corpus of Arabic texts to which they apply digital methods in such a way that…
Old Chinese Prêt-à-porter. A double-edged sword.
Sometimes I miss watching movies with commercial interruptions, at the theater or on television. Not only were they a great…
Building DH Infrastructure for the Study of Asia, Middle East, and Africa: How they do it in France
Infrastructure in academia is what gives cohesion to a subject. It is a meeting place you know you can go…
“From Dead-ends into Gateways”: Interview with Dr. Nathan P. Gibson about Syriaca.org, 2nd and Final Part
This is the second part of a series of posts by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac, based…
“I Just Want the Data!”: A Short Guide to GSI Japan for Non-Japanese-Speaking Users
The volume of digitally available Japanese research materials and the databases that hold them are increasing by the year. This…
Crowdsourcing for Ottoman Studies: Zooniverse
Speeding up a workforce by getting help, ideas, or information from a large audience over the Internet, via a website,…
We Need a Better System: Streamlining Academic Digital Workflow from Reading to Writing
We are in an age of unprecedented information access. As academics in the humanities, we all have too much information…