Archives Portal Europe: an invaluable tool for digital archival research
This is a guest post by Anna Batzeli. This post introduces the Archives Portal Europe, an online archival repository which…
Month: January 2024
A Glimpse of Ethnic Borderlands of Modern China through the Lens of Early Chinese Ethnologists
This is a guest post by Wei-chieh Tsai. See information at the end of this post. Between 1928 and 1943,…
Object Detection in Visual Studies: Computer-Asssisted Comparison of Chinese Papercut Patterns
In recent years, visual studies have gained significance in digital humanities due to advancements in processing visual materials at scale,…
Online Resources for Chinese Palaeography. Yes, again!
When I joined the Digital Orientalist, I did so motivated by the desire to share with colleagues in Chinese studies…
Vlogging as a Multimodal Way of Knowing and Acting: Some Reflections from the Trans-Himalayan Context
The Himalayan region has consistently been the subject of various external imaginations. For example, since the publication of James Hilton’s…
Using Python to Analyze Greek New Testament Manuscripts
This post will take a break from writing about using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room, the topic I covered…
AI, Machine Learning, and Neural Networks: Friends or Foes in the Historical Investigation?
When AI image generator services were opened to the public on the vast web in 2021, they quickly became viral…
Digital Benin: bringing together scattered historic Benin objects
The kingdom of Benin, in what is now central Nigeria, was a powerful African state from the Middle Ages until…
El Archivo de las Índias (the General Archive of the Indies) and the PARES Project: A Brief Introduction and Review
This is a guest post by Raúl Cervera, with special thanks to David Perez Arcé. See information about the author…