Convincing DH: Jing Hu, “Mining networks in MARKUS: A study of Chosŏn interpreters’ trade networks in Qing China”
With the proliferation of digital tools and databases meant to engage a wide range of users from the serious scholar…
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Archiving Gǀui, a Kalahari Khoe Language in Southern Africa
Report of Gǀui Archiving Project By Kanji Kato ROIS-DS Center for Open Data in Humanities/ Tokyo University of Foreign Studies…
Pressbook for teaching
I never thought I’d used the phrase that is coming up, but here we are. I am old enough to…
Genius loci: extracting names and places from Japanese texts
This guest contribution is written by Anna Oskina. Introduction Among other things, the digital humanities deals with individual items, which…
MapHub: A Brief Tutorial
MapHub allows users to make either thematic or regional maps using Geographic Information Systems as an interactive map. It provides…
Dr Sami Ibrahim Haddad – the surgeon and his manuscripts
This guest post is written by Lara Salha, archivist at Wellcome Collection, and gives us an introduction to her work…
Cracking the Oracle Bones: The Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database (Part 2)
In the second part of our exploration of the Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database 殷墟甲骨文數據庫 (YOD), we’ll continue our…
The Toyo Bunko Archive: a source of joy and torment
As promised previously, in this post I am leading you in a deep dive into a major digital archive I…
Taking notes with Notion
“Nowadays, each family produces writings, and every person has a collection. <…> The texts of old pile up high, with…
How to build a community of collaborative transcription? Feed-back from an on-going project
(Part 2) Although we initially thought that the Ethiopian community would find something to satisfy its curiosity, it was clear…