Mapping Prefectural-Level Financial Mobilisation in Wartime Japan
The Japanese government was able to sustain total war against the Allied Powers for almost half a decade after losing…
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At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France (3): Bridging Communities and Building the Future
Introduction The first article of this series explored the general landscape of digital studies on Arabic script in France. The…
Overview of NDL Kotenseki OCR: The Key to Early Modern Japanese Archives?
This article was written by guest contributor Xia-Kang Ziyi (Kyushu University). The author bio is below. One of the biggest…
Politicians Speak: An Introduction to the Database System for the Minutes of the Imperial Diet
Japanese historians often cite the minutes of the Imperial Diet[1] to demonstrate changes in state policy and the views of…
An Introduction to Conference Proceedings You May Have Missed: Unaccompanied Videos
Since November 2025, we have been publishing the proceedings of The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital…
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Imagining a Contextual Tech for Indian Languages: A Postcard from Bahu Bhasa 2025
Building on the conversations initiated under the Future of the Commons (overviews of which can be found here and here),…
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…
Islam West Africa Collection: Dataset, Distant Reading, and Uses of AI for Discourse Analysis
Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC), created and maintained by F. Madore, is an open-access database that provides access to press clippings from the mainstream press in West African (Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo, Niger, Nigeria) as well as Islamic publications, and video recordings, all of those documents related to Islam. Complex tools enable discourse analysis and answer various scientific questions through keywords mapping, topic modelling, sentiment analysis and spatial visualization.
At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France (2) : A Brief History of Handwritten Arabic Text Recognition in France
Introduction The first article of this series explored recent advances in the digital study of Arabic script in France in…