On Voyant Tools, Stopword Lists, and Japanese Textual Analysis and Visualisation
Over the past year, I have been working on a textual analysis project exploring Japanese understandings of Judaism, Israel, and…
Year: 2025
Inside CrossAsia’s Lab (Part 2)
The CrossAsia Lab equips researchers in Asian Studies with practical tools to engage with data in more interactive and meaningful…
How the Sounds (Im)properly Educate the People: Korea and the World, Then, and Now
This week’s post was written by Tomasz Sleziak. Sleziak is a scholar in Korean studies (particularly Korean but also global…
Bridging Narratives and Data: ResearchSpace 4.0.0 and the Power of Knowledge Graphs
Decades ago, one of the main concerns of the cultural heritage community was the lack of digitized data. Although digitization…
CrossAsia: A Gateway to Asian Studies in the Digital Age (Part 1)
The first of three articles looking at how the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin’s digital platform CrossAsia is changing the way Asian…
Editor’s Digest March 2025: Central and South Asian Studies 1
It has been almost a year since my last Editor’s Digest and in that time there have been a few…
Tools for Literature Mapping
In the ever-expanding web of academic literature, exploring the research landscape and searching for publications can often feel complicated, overwhelming,…
M-Classi: A Digital Tool for the Classification of Sciences in Islam and Beyond
Introduction A fundamental question in the history of science from antiquity to the premodern era is how people organized knowledge,…
Ancient Egyptian Hieratic Palaeography Database: AKU-PAL
Ancient Egyptian civilization, which flourished in the Nile Valley and the Nile Delta, is widely known for its monumental hieroglyphs…
Digital Humanities: Unexpected Encounters at DOT 2025
Dr Johannes Thomann (Visiting Researcher, Islamic Studies, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, IAOS; University of Zürich, UZH) is responsible…