Education and Technology: Understanding History through Anime Productions
This guest post was written by Virgine Borges de Castilho Sacoman (UNISINOS). Learn more about her work here. Since I…
Year: 2024
Jingyuan Digital Platform – Font Making and Database Development for Shang Oracle Bones (Part 2)
This is a guest post by Peichao Qin | University of Cambridge. In my earlier post, I introduced my newly launched “Jingyuan Digital…
PR Strategy and Social Media of Japan’s Imperial Household Agency
The Imperial Household Agency is the government administrative body with jurisdiction over the Imperial Family of Japan. It is also…
Cognitive Stylometry as an LLM-Based Methodology in Chinese Literary Studies
Recent years have witnessed a wave of fascinating research findings in both natural and artificial intelligence. While scholars remain cautious…
Using TEI to study Edward Sylvester Morse’s Japan Diaries in the Peabody Essex Museum Collection (Part 1)
TEI (text-encoding initiative) is a digital humanities method that enriches plain text transcriptions using .xml tags. It is most commonly…
An Intertextual Heatmap: Tantra of the Sun’s Reception in 14th century Tibet
How do you map 14th-century Buddhist intertextuality? Stanford scholar Elaine Lai shares how she created a digital heatmap to visualize textual connections between the “Tantra of the Sun” and its commentaries, offering new insights into citation patterns and textual authority.
A Brief Introduction to The Index of Tangut Literature 西夏文獻目錄 Database
This is a guest post by Enfu Zhang. See author bio at the end of the page. As the Tangut…
Introducing Network Analysis in the Classroom
In March and May 2024, as a Training Fellow of the Centre of Data, Culture, and Society (CDCS) at the…
Artificial Intelligence for Garshuni-Arabic on Gemini
The recent rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots like Gemini has opened up exciting new possibilities for interacting with and…
Hellenistic Central Asia through the Eyes of GenAI – Part 1: Images
This is part one of a three-part series on the biases about the Hellenistic Central Asia in generative artificial intelligence (AI) datasets. The first and most glaring use of generative AI involving Hellenistic Central Asia is AI-generated imagery. The history of Hellenistic Central Asia, much like most genres of history, is illustrated through this medium with very little regulation.