The Marega Collection Database: A Review and Introduction
The Digital Orientalist has long published pieces pertaining to the study of the history of Christianity in Japan. In 2021,…
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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…
Digital Resources for the Study of Persian Manuscripts
The following resources are some of the main institutions and libraries for the purpose, but this post can be updated…
A closer look at a big, classic humanities project
This is a post by DO founder L. W. Cornelis Van Lit Does a research project which produced a large…
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eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 2
In part 1 of this series, I provided a quick introduction to eScriptorium and the workflow associated with it. This…
When CJK Metadata Gets Left Behind
This is a guest post by Adam H. Lisbon. Many thanks to James Morris for coordinating it. In August of…
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Repost of a Roundtable Discussion: ‘Digital Humanities, Digital Communities”
The following online roundtable discussion was part of a School of Culture, History, and Language ‘Flagship’ event organised by Christopher…
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Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 3
This is the third part of the interview with Arezou Azad, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian…
The Books in China Database
This is a guest post by Prof. Joseph Dennis. Introduction The Books in China Database (BIC) is designed to address…
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…