The Open Buddhist University
This is a guest post by Khemarato Bhikkhu. Shortly after ordaining, a young monk in Thailand will be given a…
Category: Online Resources
Oral Histories from Sindhi Libraries in India: Infrastructures around Sindhi Literature
My previous work on Sindhi literature in post-Partition involves PG Sindhi Library, Sindhi Halchal Archive, and Sindhi Sanchaya. Posts dealing…
Digital Curatorship, Handling Special Collections, and Lessons Learned from My Pursuit of Historical Photographs of People Reading in China
This is a guest post by Damian Mandzunowski. The author bio is below. The premise behind this piece is simple:…
Running IIIF Locally: A Simple Setup Guide
Introduction Many of the fields of study here on The Digital Orientalist rely heavily on images hosted online. In textual…
Interview with Prof. David Michelson: From Syriaca.org to the British Library and Beyond (2)
This post is the second part of a conversation between Ephrem A. Ishac and David Michaelson on the state of…
Interview with Prof. David Michelson: From Syriaca.org to the British Library and Beyond (1)
Between October and November 2025, Prof. David Michelson served as a visiting fellow at the Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO)…
The Hong Kong Chinese Merchants Collection: An Introduction and its Potential Applications
This article was written by Contributor for Northeast Asian Studies, Brian Tsz Ho Wong, and Guest Contributor, Curtis Sai Hung…
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Current Trends in Digital Corpora and Manuscript Archives of Classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez)
Classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez: ግዕዝ Gəʽ(ə)z), one of the classical written languages preserved on the African continent, has sustained religious and…
Education and Preservation of National Consciousness in Polish and Korean Online Repositories
This is a guest post written by Tomasz Sleziak. The author bio is below. Both South Korea and Poland can…
Xeirographa: Learn to Read Greek New Testament Manuscripts
Introduction The jump from reading the text of the Greek New Testament in a printed edition to reading the same…