Artificial Intelligence for Garshuni-Arabic on Gemini
The recent rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots like Gemini has opened up exciting new possibilities for interacting with and…
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Hellenistic Central Asia through the Eyes of GenAI – Part 1: Images
This is part one of a three-part series on the biases about the Hellenistic Central Asia in generative artificial intelligence (AI) datasets. The first and most glaring use of generative AI involving Hellenistic Central Asia is AI-generated imagery. The history of Hellenistic Central Asia, much like most genres of history, is illustrated through this medium with very little regulation.
African Tech Inventions, Inclusive AI and Digital Innovation: A Historical Perspective
This is a guest post by Anna Osterlow. See bio at the end of this post. When looking at current scholarly…
Collating Greek Manuscripts
Introduction In my last post, I explored tools in a software package called Criticus that helps move from transcription to…
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The DiGA Project—Digitization of Gandhāran Artefacts: An Interview with Jessie Pons and Cristiano Moscatelli (Part 1)
In the field of Buddhist art, recent years have seen more and more digitization projects that center around the art…
Digitising the Archives of a Rural Radio in Mali: A Transnational Project
The Malian radio station in Kayes, close to the Senegalese border, was founded in 1988, as part of an Italian…
Digitized Examples of the 17th-century Georgian-Persian Illuminated Historical Documents from Georgian Repositories
This is a guest post by Helen Giunashvili | George Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies/Ilia State University Introduction In the…
Jingyuan Digital Platform: Font Making and Database Development for Shang Oracle Bones (Part 1)
This is a guest post by Peichao Qin | University of Cambridge. Tired of struggling to find and type out complex oracle…
Call for Applications
The Digital Orientalist is happy to announce its annual open call for editors, contributors, and team members. Apply and share this…
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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…