Shuge: Visual Materials in a Digitizing World
Shuge 書格 is a free, online database of Chinese rare books, which offers a continuously expanding collection of high-quality scans for…
Category: Sinology
Shuge: the world’s libraries. Or, just a website that works for you.
An old mantra among digital circles: online resources to access material circulating in digital formats are so numerous that it…
Data Cleaning Chinese Text with OpenRefine: Facet
Text filtering helps researchers target selected, specific data for accurate text analysis results. In my last post, I explored the…
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Online Resources for Buddhist Studies and the Development of Digital Humanities, Past, Present and Future: An Interview with Charles Muller, Editor of the DDB and CJKV-E Dictionaries
This is the first in a series of interviews with scholars working on Digital Methods for Buddhist Studies. Our initial…
Digitizing Cultural Heritage in Contemporary China: An Introduction to “Sinorelic”
What is Sinorelic? Sinorelic (华夏古迹图) is a Chinese-language online platform for collecting and sharing data about cultural heritage sites. Developed…
Can we really trust Digital Humanities?
When I write posts about Digital Humanities, be that here or in my blog in Russian, I tend to talk…
Data Cleaning Chinese Text with OpenRefine: Sentence Filtering
Following my first post for the Digital Orientalist on the topic of OpenRefine, in this post I would like to share…
The Changing Role of Textile Making: Text Analysis of Digitized “Lienü zhuan” with Voyant Tools (Part II)
Voyant Tools is a website that allows text analysis in multiple languages with handy, easy-to-learn digital tools. In my earlier…
Some Reflections on Online Resources for Chinese Palaeography
My previous posts introduced a series of online resources and databases that have become essential tools for the study of…
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…