Archives in Indian Languages as Digital Commons in India
This is a follow-up to part one on the “Future of the Commons” conference published earlier this week. While that…
Year: 2024
AI and Indian Languages: Wishful Thinking?
With recent advancements in AI, including developments by Sarvam AI and Hanooman AI, creating a lot of hype around large…
Introducing The DO 2024/2025 Team
It has been another busy and exciting year for The Digital Orientalist. Our 10th anniversary was a special occasion, marked…
Call for Applications
The Digital Orientalist is happy to announce its annual open call for editors, contributors, and team members. Apply and share this…
The Consortium DISTAM (DIgital STudies Africa, Asia, Middle East): structuring DH in areal studies in France
Since 2022, DISTAM (DIgital STudies Africa, Asia, Middle East) has been a consortium of the French research infrastructure Huma-Num. It…
Exploring Digital Humanities in the Classroom (Part 1)
This is a guest post by Joanne Bernardi. Overview This post introduces a series on digital pedagogy, specifically, designing and…
Linked Data: An Intensive Introduction by Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller
Three seems to be a magical number. Something about it is so convenient, encapsulated in Netflix’s method of describing a…
Komonjo Camera, the AI App for Reading Cursive Japanese Characters
Overview In June 2023, TOPPAN Corporation released an application for iOS, the Komonjo Camera 古文書カメラ. This was followed by an…
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A Postcard from the World of Print: Algeria’s Place in the Digital Humanities
How does Algeria fit into the world of digital humanities? First, we have to determine what we mean, when we…
NLP Tools for Sinology: Introducing the WYD Platform
This entry introduces a platform that utilizes Machine Learning (ML) algorithms from the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to…