Video Games and the Humanities: A Call for Scholarly Games
Last spring I wrote a post on why video games should be considered valued tools for teaching non-Western narratives of…
Month: March 2024
Japan’s Imperial Household Agency: The Archives and Mausolea Department Catalog and Image Disclosure System
Overview The Imperial Household Agency in Tokyo is an administrative body under the Cabinet Office for affairs relating to the…
PRC Autonomous Region Local Histories: a repository of rare historical materials
This is a guest post by Dotno Dashdorj Pount. Dr. Pount graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, find more about…
Introduction to Programming with Chinese
This post was prepared together with Tilman Schalmey. Find here the tutorial files for this post. As digital technologies develop,…
Criticus: A tool to move from transcription to collation
Introduction In my last few posts, I explored how Python could be used to do some codicological analysis of manuscripts…
The Shang Dynasty Has An Unexpected Ally: AI
This is an account based on the articles linked throughout and at the end of the article. I thank Kevin…
The Age of Digital Technology: Silk Road Archaeological Sites and Artefacts (Part 2)
In Part One, we explored how digital technology has transformed Silk Road archaeology through the digitization of archaeological sites and…
Ainu Fish Skin Robes and 3D Digital Animation for Sustainable Fashion Production: An Interview with Ana Cordoba Crespo
This is an interview by contributing writer, Emma Donington Kiey, with fashion designer Ana Cordoba Crespo, on her involvement with…
Low Tech, High Reward? A Report on the Workshop “Making the Most of Digital Humanities for Tibetan Studies”
I want to start with some general questions that many Digital Orientalist contributors will have asked themselves privately or in…