The Digital Orientalist’s Recap of 2019
The last year was quite eventful for the Digital Orientalist. It saw a large growth in readership, expansion into new…
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Online Ritual Web Traffic and the Hindu Diaspora
This post was written by guest contributor Zach Chrisman. Chrisman is a master’s student in Religious Studies at the University of Denver…
Using Kraken to Train your own OCR Models
This is a contribution by Christine Roughan of NYU. Connect with her on Twitter @cmroughan Over the summer of 2019, inspired by the promising results in articles like Romanov et al. 2017, I set out to use the…
Marching Onwards: The Digital Orientalist in the New Academic Year
The new academic year is about to begin and as always the Digital Orientalist will return to a regular, weekly…
Open Call for Editors
The Digital Orientalist is seeking to expand and as such we are eagerly looking for several new editors for the new…
Have a Great Summer
The Digital Orientalist will go into summer recess for July and August. Still need to scratch your DH itch? You…
On books and electricity
This guest-post comes from Louise Gallorini (American University of Beirut) and reflects on the value of holding an actual, physical,…
Announcing a Handbook for DH and Manuscript Studies
Millions of documents have been scanned and stored as images of pages. Now what? For the past 1,5 years I…
A new year, a new team
This year, The Digital Orientalist will come to life as it never has done before. It will no longer be…
Social Media Manager Needed!
Are you good with social media and do you know a fair few things about Digital Humanities? Or are you…