M-Classi: A Digital Tool for the Classification of Sciences in Islam and Beyond
Introduction A fundamental question in the history of science from antiquity to the premodern era is how people organized knowledge,…
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Ancient Egyptian Hieratic Palaeography Database: AKU-PAL
Ancient Egyptian civilization, which flourished in the Nile Valley and the Nile Delta, is widely known for its monumental hieroglyphs…
Digital Humanities: Unexpected Encounters at DOT 2025
Dr Johannes Thomann (Visiting Researcher, Islamic Studies, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, IAOS; University of Zürich, UZH) is responsible…
CFP: The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025
Call for Papers Abstract deadline: 31 March 2025Date of the conference: 31 May 2025 Submissions We are pleased to announce…
Digital Resources for Reading Japanese Seals
Although resources for learning to read or assist with deciphering cursive Japanese script found in historical books and documents are…
Medieval Georgian Manuscripts of Shahnameh Translations with Miniatures at the National Centre of Manuscripts of Georgia (“Rostomiani”)
This is a post by Helen Giunashvili | George Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies/Ilia State University The Georgian manuscript tradition and book…
From Vienna to the World: Launching the First Public Syriac HTR Model on Transkribus
Readers of The Digital Orientalist, you are among the first to know! Today’s post is dedicated to the release of…
Resources for Kanjur and Tanjur Studies: Introduction and Review
The Resources for Kanjur & Tanjur Studies (rKTs) is an open-access digital platform that is currently the largest database of…
Unearthing Modern Japan’s Subterranean Networks with the National Diet Library’s (NDL) Full-Text Search System (Part 1): Kugimiya Iwao and the Circles of Orthodox Christians
Introduction In 2021, Japan’s NDL launched a project to digitise around 300,000 books (approximately 45 million digital images) in that…
To Merge or Not to Merge: The Pitfalls of Chinese Tokenization in General-Purpose LLMs
Tokenization, the process of transforming human text into machine-understandable units of meaning (tokens), is a foundational step in language modeling.…