Library Holdings, Duplication and Digitization: Resources on the History of the Ashio Copper Mine
Earlier this year I published a short piece in The Digital Orientalist entitled “Digital Resources for Studying the History of…
Author: James Harry Morris
Google Docs and OCR: Some Experiments Transcribing Japanese Language Texts
In the past year or so I have been seeing and hearing an increasing amount about the capabilities of Google…
Digital Resources for Studying the History of the Ashio Copper Mine
I am currently working on a research project on the Ashio Copper Mine Pollution Incident (J. Ashio kōdoku jiken 足尾鉱毒事件)…
Making Custom Keyboard Layouts to Transliterate East Asian Languages
Many readers will likely be aware of the Digital Orientalist’s Keyboard Layouts (launched in 2014 and improved upon in 2017)…
Minna de honkoku: An Overview and Reflection
In a piece that I wrote for the Digital Orientalist last year, I compiled a list of digital resources for…
Book and Document Scanning with the CZUR Aura X Pro
I recently purchased a CZUR Aura X Pro to scan documents and books in my office, home, and at libraries…
Digital Resources for Japanese Palaeography
This year I have had the pleasure of being involved in the “Tackling Pandemics in Early Modern Japan” transcription project…
Some tools for quickly transliterating Chinese characters
Students, librarians, and non-Sinologists who occassionally interact with Chinese language sources may want to speed up the process of transliterating…
Some Short Reflections on Lists
In the past, the Digital Orientalist celebrated the virtues of brevity by regularly publishing short pieces, thoughts, and reflections. Some…
An Introduction to SmartHanzi and DDB Access
SmartHanzi and DDB Access are interesting apps from the same developer which I came across on Twitter a few years…