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…
Category: Chinese Language
The Consortium DISTAM (DIgital STudies Africa, Asia, Middle East): structuring DH in areal studies in France
Since 2022, DISTAM (DIgital STudies Africa, Asia, Middle East) has been a consortium of the French research infrastructure Huma-Num. It…
NLP Tools for Sinology: Introducing the WYD Platform
This entry introduces a platform that utilizes Machine Learning (ML) algorithms from the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to…
The China Biographical Database (CBDB): An Introduction and Conversation with Professor Peter Bol
The China Biographical Database The China Biographical Database (CBDB) is ‘a relational database of biographical information for China before the…
The Magic of Philology and Indexing
Tracking Drug Names Across Language, Time, Space and Knowledge Domains to Produce New Visions of Traditional Medicine This is a…
An Experiment with Gemini Pro LLM for Chinese OCR and Metadata Extraction
This is a guest post by Eric H. C. Chow. For more information, see at the end of this post.…
Introduction to Programming with Chinese
This post was prepared together with Tilman Schalmey. Find here the tutorial files for this post. As digital technologies develop,…
Some additional thoughts on regular expressions… for text analysis
In an earlier post here on The Digital Orientalist, Mariana Zorkina introduced the topic of regular expressions (or in short…
The Digitization of a Large Latin-Chinese Dictionary
This is a guest post by Christopher Francese, Asbury J. Clarke Professor of Classical Studies, Dickinson College francese@dickinson.edu In 2016…
The evolution of Kaom.net
Guyin xiaojing 古音小鏡 is a database that gathers data and tools for Old Chinese linguistics, but not exclusively. I previously…