Exploring AI-Driven Tools for Research in Humanistic Buddhism: A Comparative Evaluation
This is a guest post by William Chong. For more information, see at the end of this post. Introduction Our…
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Exhibiting the Ancient Silk Roads Virtually
The term “ancient Silk Roads” conventionally refers to the historical networks of trade routes spanning West, East, Central, and South…
Digital Architecture in Dunhuang—and beyond: an interview with Dr Zhenru Zhou
In this post, I continue my exploration of digital reconstructions in Asian art historical practice. I virtually sat down for…
The Toyo Bunko Archive: a source of joy and torment
As promised previously, in this post I am leading you in a deep dive into a major digital archive I…
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…
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READ Workbench (Part 1): An Introduction to a Text and Image Annotation Ecosystem
The ‘Research Environment for Ancient Documents’ (or ‘READ‘) is an ecosystem of open-source tools and platforms for the creation of…
Digital resources for the study of Buddhist Art in Central Asia: a general overview
When it comes to Buddhist studies, the number of online resources can feel very overwhelming – from the thousands of…
Digital Humanities and Buddhist Studies in Japan: An Interview with Kiyonori Nagasaki (2/2)
This is the second part of our interview with Professor Kiyonori Nagasaki (twitter @knagasaki), Senior Fellow at the International Institute…
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Digital Humanities and Buddhist Studies in Japan: An Interview with Kiyonori Nagasaki (1/2)
Continuing our series of interviews with scholars working in Digital Humanities in Japan, this is the first of a two-part…