Analyzing Collation Files: Apatosaurus
In my last post, I explored how to collate TEI XML transcriptions of Greek New Testament manuscripts, yielding a TEI…
Category: Visualization
An Intertextual Heatmap: Tantra of the Sun’s Reception in 14th century Tibet
How do you map 14th-century Buddhist intertextuality? Stanford scholar Elaine Lai shares how she created a digital heatmap to visualize textual connections between the “Tantra of the Sun” and its commentaries, offering new insights into citation patterns and textual authority.
Introducing Network Analysis in the Classroom
In March and May 2024, as a Training Fellow of the Centre of Data, Culture, and Society (CDCS) at the…
Hellenistic Central Asia through the Eyes of GenAI – Part 1: Images
This is part one of a three-part series on the biases about the Hellenistic Central Asia in generative artificial intelligence (AI) datasets. The first and most glaring use of generative AI involving Hellenistic Central Asia is AI-generated imagery. The history of Hellenistic Central Asia, much like most genres of history, is illustrated through this medium with very little regulation.
The Hiroshi Komiyama Collection, Database of Character Forms
During the DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion: Graphic Culture Research Grant’s annual research report meeting in November 2023, I had…
A Parallel Treebank of Speeches by Narendra Modi, PM of India
This is a guest post by Erica Biagetti In my first post as a guest contributor to the Digital Orientalist, I…
Creating the largest Juren Dataset with ChatGPT: A Journey through Digital Humanities. (Part One)
This is a guest post by Jiajun Zou. See bio at the end of this post. Part I Tianyige Ming…
Exploring the Depths of Data: An Introduction to Nodegoat
This is a guest post by Özge Eda Kaya (@ozgedakaya on Twitter/X). Nodegoat is a web-based research application framework developed…
Low Tech, High Reward? A Report on the Workshop “Making the Most of Digital Humanities for Tibetan Studies”
I want to start with some general questions that many Digital Orientalist contributors will have asked themselves privately or in…
AI, Machine Learning, and Neural Networks: Friends or Foes in the Historical Investigation?
When AI image generator services were opened to the public on the vast web in 2021, they quickly became viral…