Digital Storytelling in the Digitisation of Japanese Botanical Specimens in RBG, Kew’s Collections
For the past year and a half, I have worked as a digitisation quality assurance and team leader at Royal…
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Sindhi Sanchaya: A Repository of Data about Sindhi Books
In my previous post, I wrote about the Sindhi Halchal Archive: a passion project that extends the work of the…
Unearthing Modern Japan’s Subterranean Networks with the National Diet Library’s (NDL) Full-Text Search System (Part 3): Celebrity Diaries and Spatial Politics in Wartime Tokyo
Celebrity diaries constitute an essential resource for researching modern Japanese history. Scholars examine the diarists’ lives, thoughts, social networks, and…
A StoryMap Resource for Studying Early Maritime Asia
This is a guest post by Andrew Chittick. The author bio is below. The Digital Orientalist has proven to be…
Islam West Africa Collection: Dataset, Distant Reading, and Uses of AI for Discourse Analysis
Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC), created and maintained by F. Madore, is an open-access database that provides access to press clippings from the mainstream press in West African (Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo, Niger, Nigeria) as well as Islamic publications, and video recordings, all of those documents related to Islam. Complex tools enable discourse analysis and answer various scientific questions through keywords mapping, topic modelling, sentiment analysis and spatial visualization.
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An Overview of Digital Tools and Resources for East Asian Studies Reviewed by The Digital Orientalist Members
Since its founding in 2013, The Digital Orientalist has grown from a research blog by Cornelis van Lit to an…
Alternatives to Google: Is DuckDuckGo Useful for Research?
Google’s privacy issues are fairly well-known—there is even a Wikipedia page about it. Even if we don’t know the details,…
Sindhi Halchal Archive: Building on the PG Sindhi Library
In my previous post, I wrote about potentialities: I spoke about what might be doable for the Sindhi presence within…
Think Tasks Not Tools: Teaching AI Literacy in East Asian Art History
This guest contribution was written by Dr. Stephanie Santschi, who is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Zurich’s Department…
Introducing The DO 2025/26 Team
Welcome back to another year at The DO! This post kicks off the beginning of the 2025/26 year! Before looking…