Three Months of DuckDuckGo: Reflections after Partially “De-Googling”
In September 2025 I published a piece entitled “Alternatives to Google: Is DuckDuckGo Useful for Research?” where I explored whether…
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Marimo Notebooks
In a previous post, I have highlighted the usefulness of notebooks for writing Python code. I mentioned tools like Jupyter…
From Rigid Taxonomies to Networks of Relationships: When the Semantic Web Redesigns Cultural Narratives
Imagine an infinite library, housing thousands of Arabic, Persian and Ottoman manuscripts. Works on medicine, astronomy, poetry, philosophy, and law.…
Digital Humanities in Motion: When Pop Culture Rewrites Aging
This guest contribution was written by Virgine Borges de Castilho Sacoman, MS to PhD student in Sociology at the University…
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Imagining a Contextual Tech for Indian Languages: A Postcard from Bahu Bhasa 2025
Building on the conversations initiated under the Future of the Commons (overviews of which can be found here and here),…
AI Ethics and the Humanities: A Perspective from Buddhist Studies
This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities)…
Chorded Input and the Japanese Language: An Introduction and Invitation
Those of us who use languages written in the Latin alphabet likely don’t think much about how we input text.…
Mapping Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing on the Orient
This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities)…
Digital Storytelling in the Digitisation of Japanese Botanical Specimens in RBG, Kew’s Collections
For the past year and a half, I have worked as a digitisation quality assurance and team leader at Royal…
Sindhi Sanchaya: A Repository of Data about Sindhi Books
In my previous post, I wrote about the Sindhi Halchal Archive: a passion project that extends the work of the…