The Evolution of Projects and the Importance of Reassessment
At the Digital Orientalist we tend to review a lot of projects, tools and databases, but when we do so…
Month: May 2023
Video Games in the Classroom and the Non-Western World
Since starting my teaching career, I have increasingly integrated video games where I can into classroom activities, going so far…
‘READ Workbench (part 2): Digital Repatriation, Pedagogy and Transnational Heritage’
Introduction: The READ Workbench and its Potential The READ (‘Research Environment for Ancient Documents’) Workbench, originally designed for interpreting and…
Digital Orientalist’s 2023 Conference: Sustainability in the DH
Our 2023 conference on Sustainability in the DH will take place on June 3rd, 2023. This year, we bring together…
The evolution of Kaom.net
Guyin xiaojing 古音小鏡 is a database that gathers data and tools for Old Chinese linguistics, but not exclusively. I previously…
Cocoon: A Platform for Documenting the World’s Languages
Since 2006, the French linguist community has had a tool for depositing the sound sources that document the world’s linguistic…
Can I automate the boring stuff with ChatGPT?
A quick API solution for a Chinese text classification task– and its limitations. This is a guest post by Tilman…
A Review of MARKUS: More than Marking Up Classical Chinese
The technology of Natural Language Processing (NLP) identifies named entities, which are words or phrases referring to specific people, places,…
A Guide for Using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (Part 2)
In my previous post on how to use the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (NTVMR), I walked through the process…