Navigating the Dunhuang Manuscripts Databases
The Mogao Caves nearby Dunhuang were one of the most exceptional discoveries of the 20th century. Their textual, artistic and…
Category: DH in Practice
Cracking the Oracle Bones: the Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database (Part 1)
Introduction: In April, the Zhonghua Book Company (中華書局) launched the (subscription-only) Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database 殷墟甲骨文數據庫 (YOD), containing…
Digital Humanities and Manuscript Archives in Iran
Professor Dr. Rasul Jafarian has significantly contributed to digital humanities during his services as the director of some of the…
Editors, Contributors, and What we do at the Digital Orientalist
A driving idea behind our magazine is direct experience: If you want to learn DH, why not immediately write about…
The Biblical Hebrew Reader Generator
This post serves as a quick introduction to a tool I recently found via Twitter: The Biblical Hebrew Reader Generator.…
Visualizing an Online Database for Notable Japanese Collections in North America
This is a guest post by Ann Marie Davis (The Ohio State University), Katherine Matsuura (Harvard University), and Yukari Sugiyama…
Infrastructures. The Digital Orientalist’s 2022 online conference.
The following is the schedule of the Digital Orientalist’s 2022 Zoom conference “Infrastructures.” You can find titles and abstracts here;…
Buddhist StudiesChinese LanguageDH in GeneralDH in PracticeDigitizationJapanese StudiesOnline ResourcesTextual Analysis
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…
African LanguagesAfrican StudiesAncient EgyptAncient Near Eastern StudiesCodingCoptic LanguageDH in GeneralDH in PracticeDigitizationEquipmentSoftware
Read and Write Coptic on Your Smartphone: Interview with Mina Makar on Coptic Bible, Dictionary, Keyboard, and Agpeya Apps
Coptic is the last stage of the Egyptian language and is still used at Coptic Christian churches. Coptic uses the…
Digital Literacies in and Beyond the Classroom: Some Reflections on DH in Teaching with Dr. Paula R. Curtis
Over the last decade, the growing number of accessible digital archives and repositories has been matched by the continued development…