3D technology in the Chinese history classroom: Restoring material metadata for primary sources
In 2012, the Smithsonian Institution started its experiment of turning museum collections into 3D models (Terdiman 2022). Ten years later,…
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The Art of Notetaking
For quite a few years, digital creators have invented and shaped many note-taking apps. Some of my colleagues touched already…
A Beginner’s Guide to Inputting Historical Kana: Installing a Font for “Hentaigana”
There are several ways to render historical kana (commonly known as variant kana or hentaigana 変体仮名) in our writing or…
Navigating the Dunhuang Manuscripts Databases
The Mogao Caves nearby Dunhuang were one of the most exceptional discoveries of the 20th century. Their textual, artistic and…
Digital resources for the study of Buddhist Art in Central Asia: a general overview
When it comes to Buddhist studies, the number of online resources can feel very overwhelming – from the thousands of…
Cracking the Oracle Bones: the Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database (Part 1)
Introduction: In April, the Zhonghua Book Company (中華書局) launched the (subscription-only) Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database 殷墟甲骨文數據庫 (YOD), containing…
The Japanese Diaspora in Digital Sources: The Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection
All scholars engaged in the study of the Japanese diaspora can profit from the treasure trove of resources on the…
Digital Humanities and Buddhist Studies in Japan: An Interview with Kiyonori Nagasaki (2/2)
This is the second part of our interview with Professor Kiyonori Nagasaki (twitter @knagasaki), Senior Fellow at the International Institute…
CfA for Social Media Manager
Are you good with social media and do you know a fair few things about Digital Humanities? Or are you…
Flew under the Digital and non-Digital Scholarly Radars: Syriac Manuscripts and Fragments at Yale University (Part 1)
As you might expect, not all rare materials (manuscripts and their fragments) are yet digitized. Sometimes still more surprising (and…