Japan Search: Much ado about nothing
Japan Search is a searchable portal that aggregates content from digital archives from, at present, 125 different databases managed by…
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A Beginners’ Guide to Digital Resources in Sanskrit
This is a guest post written by Udita Das. A few months back a friend of mine told me about…
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Decolonize University-Based Databases
Based at MIT’s Aga Khan Documentation Center, Archnet (AKDC@MIT) is an open-access resource focused on architecture, conservation issues, environmental and…
(Re)Mapping Spatial History: An Overview of the Bodies and Structures Platform
Bodies and Structures, a Scalar-based teaching and research platform mainly focused on Japanese spatial histories and their connections to other…
From the Land of Braj: A Photographic Database
From the Land of Braj, Centre of Krishna Pilgrimage is an online database developed by SOAS, thanks to funding from…
Data Cleaning Chinese Text with OpenRefine: Facet
Text filtering helps researchers target selected, specific data for accurate text analysis results. In my last post, I explored the…
Organizing Browser-heavy Workflows
Organizing browser items in a heavy online workflow can present challenges. Opening one tab inevitably leads to opening more tabs…
Missionary Linguistics – Latin, Portuguese and Japanese resources online
In the mid-90s, I was an undergraduate student taking Latin and Japanese classes. People looked at me as if I…
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Online Resources for Buddhist Studies and the Development of Digital Humanities, Past, Present and Future: An Interview with Charles Muller, Editor of the DDB and CJKV-E Dictionaries
This is the first in a series of interviews with scholars working on Digital Methods for Buddhist Studies. Our initial…
Legacy cataloguing and TEI: David Pingree and Wellcome Collection
By Alexandra Eveleigh, Stephanie Cornwell, and Adrian Plau. Wellcome Collection holds one of the world’s most unique manuscript collections. The…