Returning to Denshi Jisho: The Ongoing Benefits of Electronic Dictionaries
In 2021, I wrote a short piece for the Digital Orientalist entitled “Denshi Jisho: Are they still worth your time?”…
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African Tech Inventions, Inclusive AI and Digital Innovation: A Historical Perspective
This is a guest post by Anna Osterlow. See bio at the end of this post. When looking at current scholarly…
Collating Greek Manuscripts
Introduction In my last post, I explored tools in a software package called Criticus that helps move from transcription to…
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The DiGA Project—Digitization of Gandhāran Artefacts: An Interview with Jessie Pons and Cristiano Moscatelli (Part 1)
In the field of Buddhist art, recent years have seen more and more digitization projects that center around the art…
Digitising the Archives of a Rural Radio in Mali: A Transnational Project
The Malian radio station in Kayes, close to the Senegalese border, was founded in 1988, as part of an Italian…
The Hiroshi Komiyama Collection, Database of Character Forms
During the DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion: Graphic Culture Research Grant’s annual research report meeting in November 2023, I had…
Digitized Examples of the 17th-century Georgian-Persian Illuminated Historical Documents from Georgian Repositories
This is a guest post by Helen Giunashvili | George Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies/Ilia State University Introduction In the…
Combining Digital Resources to Investigate the Oral-formulaic Diction of Sanskrit Texts (Part 2)
In the first post of this series, I introduced the notion of formularity in oral poetry along with a new…
Combining Digital Resources to Investigate the Oral-formulaic Diction of Sanskrit Texts (Part 1)
In my previous posts on The Digital Orientalist, I introduced two types of linguistic resources dedicated to the study of…
Jingyuan Digital Platform: Font Making and Database Development for Shang Oracle Bones (Part 1)
This is a guest post by Peichao Qin | University of Cambridge. Tired of struggling to find and type out complex oracle…