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”…
Year: 2021
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…
Nail and Griffin on Paper: Exploring a Fingernail Calligraphy Album from Twentieth-century Iran
Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes (independent paper and book conservator and researcher, Utrecht, the Netherlands) and Shiva Mihan (Fellow in the School of…
Can we really trust Digital Humanities?
When I write posts about Digital Humanities, be that here or in my blog in Russian, I tend to talk…