Technological Threats to Academic Publishing
This is a short and pessimistic view on what could be out there in the near future that seriously impedes…
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Seeing the Forest from the Trees: A Reflection on the Challenges of Digital Analysis in Buddhist Studies
The first time I attempted to integrate digital tools into my research, I had a common experience: I had my…
Basic Python for Japanese Studies: Using fugashi for Text Segmentation
Look at the following Japanese sentence from Uchimura Kanzō’s 内村鑑三 Denmarukukoku no hanashi デンマルク国の話 (1911): 今日は少しこの世のことについてお話しいたそうと欲(おも)います。 Full text accessible here.…
The Pote Collection of Islamic Manuscripts: The Highlights of King’s part (I)
The Pote collection contains many textually useful manuscripts especially in the field of the history of India; however, although most…
Social Media Manager Needed from September 2021
Are you good with social media? Are you conversant with trends in the Digital Humanities and/or Oriental Studies? Or are…
Library Holdings, Duplication and Digitization: Resources on the History of the Ashio Copper Mine
Earlier this year I published a short piece in The Digital Orientalist entitled “Digital Resources for Studying the History of…
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Reconstructing Kalmyk Buddhist Monasteries through Digital Modeling: An Interview with Simon Daisley from the Khurul Project
Introduction Simon Daisley is an independent researcher of Kalmyk Buddhism and a digital heritage practitioner based in New Zealand. Through…
Innovative Designs on Ottoman Turkish Search Engines: Wikilala and Muteferriqa
Every humanities researcher dreams of finding keywords in archival documents quickly and easily. Thanks to OCR technology, we have realized…
Your first computed visualization, or, how to use Python to understand the reception of Bukhari and Muslim Hadith collections
There comes a time when using Word or PowerPoint or Excel is not going to be enough to create a…
Toward an Ecosystem of the Syriac Digital Humanities: An Interview with George A. Kiraz, 5th and Final Part
This is the sixth and final post of a series by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac, based on…