From Vienna to the World: Launching the First Public Syriac HTR Model on Transkribus
Readers of The Digital Orientalist, you are among the first to know! Today’s post is dedicated to the release of…
Category: DH in Practice
To Merge or Not to Merge: The Pitfalls of Chinese Tokenization in General-Purpose LLMs
Tokenization, the process of transforming human text into machine-understandable units of meaning (tokens), is a foundational step in language modeling.…
Report on Recent ADHO Annual Conferences: Multilingual DH in Focus
This is a guest post by Joanne Bernardi. Graduate students in the humanities learn early that academic conferences are cornerstones…
Analyzing Collation Files: Apatosaurus
In my last post, I explored how to collate TEI XML transcriptions of Greek New Testament manuscripts, yielding a TEI…
The DiGA Project—Digitization of Gandhāran Artefacts – Part 2
In my last post, I discussed the DiGA project with two of its members – Dr Jessie Pons, project leader,…
PG Sindhi Library: Revisiting the Archive after 18 Months
Archives and archive building hold great potential within the theory and praxis of digital humanities in India. Sindhi, a minor…
Exploring the (Digital) World of Ottoman Turkish Texts: The Digital Ottoman Corpora
It is fascinating to see how Ottoman Turkish texts are transcribed with the help of artificial intelligence (AI)-operated tools, such as Handwritten…
Digital Prosopography of Ancient Egyptian Society Using LOD: The Persons and Names of Middle Kingdom and Early New Kingdom Database
This is the English version of the Japanese article at Jimbun Jōhōgaku Geppō (『人文情報学月報』: Digital Humanities Monthly), 159 (1), titled…
Aksharamukha: The Automated Transliteration Tool to Simplify Script Conversion
Aksharamukha, a free and open-source transliteration tool supporting 121 scripts and 21 romanization methods, enhances access to multilingual texts and facilitates cross-cultural communication.
Cognitive Stylometry as an LLM-Based Methodology in Chinese Literary Studies
Recent years have witnessed a wave of fascinating research findings in both natural and artificial intelligence. While scholars remain cautious…