Creating an Online Calculator (2): Algorithms and Code
By James Harry Morris Previously I uploaded a post about an online calculator that I had created for converting the shakkanhō 尺貫法…
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Creating an Online Calculator for the Conversion of Shakkanhō (Japanese) Units
By James Harry Morris Introduction When I was invited to become the editor of the Japan Studies content on Digital…
A new year, a new team
This year, The Digital Orientalist will come to life as it never has done before. It will no longer be…
Apps for Learning Cursive Japanese
By James Harry Morris Learning how to read cursive Japanese script (or alternatively cursive Chinese script) is one of the…
Social Media Manager Needed!
Are you good with social media and do you know a fair few things about Digital Humanities? Or are you…
Tackling Poetry with Python (2)
In a previous post, I described the preliminary work to do automated analysis on poetry. I now describe the actual…
Digital Printing of Arabic: The Problem Revisited
In this post I will respond to some points raised by Titus Nemeth. I already discussed his rhetoric so I…
Difficulties in Keeping a Dialogue About Digital Humanities
Talking about DH on a blog will get some people angry with you. I will discuss here some examples arising from…
Making Sense of the Cacophony of Voices from the Post-Classical Period of Islam
This small article explains how close reading is not useful in research on post-classical Islamic intellectual history. Instead, close reading…
Review of The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies
The book The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies provides an excellent introduction into DH for students and scholars.…