Digitizing Cultural Heritage in Contemporary China: An Introduction to “Sinorelic”
What is Sinorelic? Sinorelic (华夏古迹图) is a Chinese-language online platform for collecting and sharing data about cultural heritage sites. Developed…
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Minna de Honkoku and the Cambridge Summer School in Japanese Early Modern Palaeography: An Interview, Part 2
Today I am happy to introduce the second and final part of our interview with Prof. Hashimoto Yuta (National Museum…
Minna de Honkoku and the Cambridge Summer School in Japanese Early Modern Palaeography: An Interview, Part 1
Long term readers of the Digital Orientalist will likely remember pieces that I wrote on “Digital Resources for Japanese Palaeography”…
An interview with Professor Sarah Savant about KITAB project, part 1
KITAB project is developing a corpus of Arabic texts to which they apply digital methods in such a way that…
“From Dead-ends into Gateways”: Interview with Dr. Nathan P. Gibson about Syriaca.org, 2nd and Final Part
This is the second part of a series of posts by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac, based…
“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…
Crowdsourcing for Ottoman Studies: Zooniverse
Speeding up a workforce by getting help, ideas, or information from a large audience over the Internet, via a website,…
Nail and Griffin on Paper: Exploring a Fingernail Calligraphy Album from Twentieth-century Iran
Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes (independent paper and book conservator and researcher, Utrecht, the Netherlands) and Shiva Mihan (Fellow in the School of…
Decolonize University-Based Journals
The Algerian Scientific Journals Platform (ASJP) is an electronic publishing platform developed and managed by the Research Center for Scientific and Technical Information (CERIST) of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria.
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An Introduction to Coptic Scriptorium
This week’s guest contribution was organized by our Editor for Northeast African Studies, So Miyagawa, and was written by Lance…