CFA: Join the DO Team 2025/26
The Digital Orientalist is pleased to announce its annual open call for editors, contributors, and team members for the 2025-2026 academic…
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The Demotic Palaeographical Database Project: A Digital Repository of Ancient Egyptian Demotic Script and Text Corpora
In my previous discussion, I examined AKU-PAL, the palaeographical database for hieratic script among ancient Egyptian writing systems. This article…
Hellenistic Central Asia through the Eyes of GenAI – Part 3: Deep Research
This is part three of a three-part series on the biases about Hellenistic Central Asia in generative artificial intelligence (AI) datasets. In this final part, I planned to discuss how Hellenistic Central Asia was biased in conversational AI models, such as ChatGPT 4o and Gemini 1.0, but newer “Deep Research” functions have since replaced and exponentially increased the capabilities of those legacy models.
Global DH vs. Area Studies: Rethinking “China and the West (Rest)” Beyond Lenticular Logic
In her essay “Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation,” Tara McPherson…
Unearthing Modern Japan’s Subterranean Networks with the National Diet Library’s (NDL) Full-Text Search System (Part 2): Private Capital and the Financing of Historical SMEs
Part 1 can be read here. The Zaibatsu had dominated Japanese business and industry for decades before WWII. They monopolised…
Exploring the Future of Library Cataloging with AI and Multilingual Embeddings
This post was written together with Sai Deng (Metadata Librarian, University of Central Florida) and Lihong Zhu (Head of Library…
Beyond Rows and Columns: Visualising Data with RAWGraphs
One of the biggest challenges of working with large (and often incomplete) collections of data lies in how best to…
Workshop: Initiating Digital Humanities Engagement in the East Asian Studies Department, University of Toronto
This is a guest post by Rose Ting-Yi Conference slides can be viewed here On March 3rd, 2025, I hosted a…
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Exploring the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room API
While not readily apparent, the New Testament Virtual Manuscript (NTVMR) room has an API that is publicly accessible. An API,…
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…