Knight Lab JS and Storytelling Tools
Knight Lab, produced by Northwestern University, is a community of designers, developers, students, and educators working on experiments designed to…
Category: Digital Cartography
Genius loci (Part 2): Mapping places from Japanese texts
This guest contribution is written by Anna Oskina. Introduction In my previous post, I showed how to extract proper names…
A Twine Journey to Mecca: Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
Building off James Harry Morris’s post on Historical Storytelling with Twine in 2019 in which he presented his experience of…
African and Oceanian Objects in French Museums: Mapping as a Tool for Rethinking Heritage and Historicizing Objects
The collections of African objects in French museums remain rather unknown. Yet the holdings of some 200 French museums contain…
Old Maps Online: mapping sites and siting maps
After my recent deep dive into Toyo Bunko, in this post I will talk about another great digital tool for…
MapHub: A Brief Tutorial
MapHub allows users to make either thematic or regional maps using Geographic Information Systems as an interactive map. It provides…
Autographic Atlas of Korea: Interview with Dr. Maya Stiller
The Autographic Atlas of Korea (AAOK) is a digital project and website that presents a rare opportunity for scholars from…
“I Just Want the Data!”: A Short Guide to GSI Japan for Non-Japanese-Speaking Users
The volume of digitally available Japanese research materials and the databases that hold them are increasing by the year. This…
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Reconstructing Kalmyk Buddhist Monasteries through Digital Modeling: An Interview with Simon Daisley from the Khurul Project
Introduction Simon Daisley is an independent researcher of Kalmyk Buddhism and a digital heritage practitioner based in New Zealand. Through…
Mapping A Thousand Buddhist Monasteries in Mongolia: Introducing the Digital Database “Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries”
What is the Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries The Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries is an online database featuring more than a…