Ladakh Archaeology: Introduction and Review
In January 2023, Ladakh Archaeology was launched. This is to date the largest database on the heritage of Ladakh, located…
Author: Rachael Griffiths
Transkribus in Practice: Abbreviations
In my last article, I wrote about my experiments to improve the accuracy of a Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) model…
Transkribus in Practice: Improving CER
Since joining the ERC-funded project, The Dawn of Tibetan Buddhist Scholasticism (11th-13th C.)(TibSchol),1 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in…
Open Call for Editors, Contributors, and Team Members 2022
The Digital Orientalist is happy to announce its annual open call for editors, contributors, and team members. We would be…
Visualizing an Online Database for Notable Japanese Collections in North America
This is a guest post by Ann Marie Davis (The Ohio State University), Katherine Matsuura (Harvard University), and Yukari Sugiyama…
Fluid Matter(s): An Interview with Shigehisa Kuriyama and Natalie Köhle on Image-Based Storytelling, Part 2
This is the second of two posts about the innovative academic publication Fluid Matter(s), which was created with the storytelling platform Shorthand and…
The AyurYog Project: An Interview with Professor Dagmar Wujastyk
This is a guest post by Udita Das. The AyurYog Project concerns with the tangled histories of South Asian yoga,…
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[Join us!] Call for Papers: The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2022
Abstract deadline: May 1, 2022Paper submission deadline: June 11, 2022Date of the conference: Saturday, June 25, 2022Submission form We are…
Streamlining Your Academic Digital Workflow #1: Reading and Annotating with LiquidText
A while ago, I wrote a piece arguing that we, as researchers in the humanities, need a better system to…
Shuge: Visual Materials in a Digitizing World
Shuge 書格 is a free, online database of Chinese rare books, which offers a continuously expanding collection of high-quality scans for…