The “Digital Orientalisms Twitter Conference” (#DOsTC)
Today we are happy to announce the Call for Papers for the Digital Orientalist’s “Digital Orientalisms Twitter Conference” (hereafter DOsTC)…
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Paths to understanding Kpelle
For those interested in learning more about the history and use of the Kpelle language and script, there are a…
The Importance of Uncertainty: VR Reconstructions of Ancient Buildings
John Sigmier, Ph.D. student at Pennsylvania University, gives us an insight into an ongoing project to display 3D models of…
The Doha Historical Dictionary of Arabic
In 2013 the Arabic Center for Research and Politics Studies launched an ambitious ongoing program to build an Arabic Historical…
Creating a Digital Timeline
By James Harry Morris Digital timelines can be useful not only as teaching resources, but as part of a presentation, as…
An Ivorian innovation: the Bété script
I write this in memory of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, who called himself “Cheikh Nadro”, or “he who does not forget”.…
Making online interactive maps with Leaflet (Part 1)
If you study or teach humanities and social sciences and are interested in digital tools, you have probably heard of…
Beyond “Laures Kirishitan Bunko”: Digital Repositories for Studying 16th and 17th Century Japanese Christianity
By James Harry Morris Kirishitan (J. 吉利支丹/切支丹/キリシタン) were 16th and 17th Century, Japanese Roman Catholics introduced to Christianity by the…
Ah, Foumban…
My memories of visiting Foumban, Cameroon in 2006 are still fairly vivid after a twelve-year absence. The palace with a…
Scholarship in 3D: 3D scanning and printing at ASOR 2018
I recently attended the 2018 ASOR conference (one of the main conferences for my field in the United States), and…