Using TEI to study Edward Sylvester Morse’s Japan Diaries in the Peabody Essex Museum Collection (Part 1)
TEI (text-encoding initiative) is a digital humanities method that enriches plain text transcriptions using .xml tags. It is most commonly…
Category: DH in Practice
An Intertextual Heatmap: Tantra of the Sun’s Reception in 14th century Tibet
How do you map 14th-century Buddhist intertextuality? Stanford scholar Elaine Lai shares how she created a digital heatmap to visualize textual connections between the “Tantra of the Sun” and its commentaries, offering new insights into citation patterns and textual authority.
Collating Greek Manuscripts
Introduction In my last post, I explored tools in a software package called Criticus that helps move from transcription to…
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The DiGA Project—Digitization of Gandhāran Artefacts: An Interview with Jessie Pons and Cristiano Moscatelli (Part 1)
In the field of Buddhist art, recent years have seen more and more digitization projects that center around the art…
Digitized Examples of the 17th-century Georgian-Persian Illuminated Historical Documents from Georgian Repositories
This is a guest post by Helen Giunashvili | George Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies/Ilia State University Introduction In the…
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A Postcard from the World of Print: Algeria’s Place in the Digital Humanities
How does Algeria fit into the world of digital humanities? First, we have to determine what we mean, when we…
Customising Digital Tools for non-Western Materials: the Launch of the Redeveloped IDP Website
This is a guest post by Anastasia Pineschi, International Dunhuang Programme (IDP) Project Manager. Find out more at the end…
Exploring Digitized Cultural Heritage Through Search Culture
Introduction As the digitization of cultural heritage progresses on both a local and a global level, the importance of digital…
Balancing Innovation and Preservation: Sustainability in the Oral History of Tibetan Studies Project
This post was co-written with Daniel Wojahn. The Oral History of Tibetan Studies (OHTS) project aims to collect and preserve…
Sustainability of The Treasury of Lives
This is a guest post by Alex Gardner and Catherine Tsuji Background On June 3, 2023, the Treasury of Lives…