The Database of Medieval Chinese Texts: A Critical Overview (part one)
This is a guest post by Laurent Van Cutsem (Ghent University). Part 2 can be read here. Part I: The…
Month: March 2023
DREAMSEA
This is guest post by Mark Boersma. Recently I came across a website of a project on manuscripts from Southeast…
Databases of premodern Chinese manuscripts and languages upped their game.
And they are playing to win. In a post from 2021, I introduced the database Guyin xiaojiing 古音小鏡 (Little Mirrors…
The Multidisciplinary DH Classroom: Material Culture meets Digital Curation in Re-Envisioning Japan
This is a gust post by Joanne Bernardi This post introduces readers to Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th…
Podcasting as Digital Storytelling in Research and Outreach
Oh great, yet another podcast! Like many researchers, I find myself listening to more diverse types of academic media in…
Genius loci (Part 2): Mapping places from Japanese texts
This guest contribution is written by Anna Oskina. Introduction In my previous post, I showed how to extract proper names…
Measuring Readability of Texts: Theory and Practice (Part 1)
This is a guest post by Aleksandra Piskunova. Have you ever wondered how readable texts are? What even makes a…
Sustainability in the DH.
Call for Papers for the Digital Orientalist conference 2023 Abstract deadline: April 15th Paper submission deadline: May 26th We are no…
Applications for scanning and 3D printing objects
This is a guest post by Steve Lang, keeper of the Asian collection at the Penn Museum on 3D printing…