The OBU: An Interview with Khemarato Bhikkhu
The Open Buddhist University (OBU) is an unaccredited, freely accessible digital resource founded in 2020. Its mission is to provide…
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From Scanned Travel Books to a Page-Aware Corpus: Testing Microsoft Foundry for Historical Research on Central Asia
This is a guest piece by Aizat Ishembieva. This post describes how structured text extraction and the creation of a…
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Editor’s Digest May 2026: Digital Humanities in General
Introduction This year’s pieces for Digital Humanities in General have covered various aspects of the practice and theory of Digital…
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The Database of Medieval Nubian Texts: A Digital Foundation for the Study of Medieval African Literate Culture
Introduction In the middle Nile Valley—the region extending from present-day Aswan in southern Egypt to northern Sudan—Christian Nubian kingdoms flourished…
Running IIIF Locally: A Simple Setup Guide
Introduction Many of the fields of study here on The Digital Orientalist rely heavily on images hosted online. In textual…
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Current Trends in Digital Corpora and Manuscript Archives of Classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez)
Classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez: ግዕዝ Gəʽ(ə)z), one of the classical written languages preserved on the African continent, has sustained religious and…
Wikipedia as an Open Access Tool for Restituting Knowledge on African Past
The Langarchiv project, officially titled “Language as Archive: European Linguistics and the Social History of the Sahara and Sahel in…
Voices from the Past: Retrieval-Augmented Dialogues with Chinese Historical Figures
This post was co-authored with Prof. Du Chunmei (Lingnan University, Department of History). History can feel like a silent discipline,…
Why Extracting Hindi Text from PDFs Is So Much Harder Than English (And How You Can Do It)
As a Digital Humanities student working with Hindi-language texts, I expected extracting text from a Hindi PDF to be a…
Teaching Bengali Digital Texts to Anglophone Undergraduates: What Voyant Reveals about the Infrastructural Bias of DH Tools
In designing an introductory Digital Humanities class, I am often faced with the question of how best to incorporate linguistic…