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…
Year: 2023
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…
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A Guide for Using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (Part 1)
Greg Paulson has already written a very helpful introduction to the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (NTVMR) as a guest…
The Marega Collection Database: A Review and Introduction
The Digital Orientalist has long published pieces pertaining to the study of the history of Christianity in Japan. In 2021,…
A Twine Journey to Mecca: Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
Building off James Harry Morris’s post on Historical Storytelling with Twine in 2019 in which he presented his experience of…
Digital Resources for Chinese Bronze Research: The Academia Sinica Collection (Part 1)
From the accidental discovery of a bronze “three-legged cauldron” (ding 鼎) during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han 武漢帝…
An alternative to the undergraduate research paper: Online Exhibitions with ArtSteps
The release of a public version of OpenAI’s generative AI platform, Chat GPT, at the end of last year has…
Digital Resources for the Study of Persian Manuscripts
The following resources are some of the main institutions and libraries for the purpose, but this post can be updated…