The OBU: An Interview with Khemarato Bhikkhu
The Open Buddhist University (OBU) is an unaccredited, freely accessible digital resource founded in 2020. Its mission is to provide…
Tag: AI
From Scanned Travel Books to a Page-Aware Corpus: Testing Microsoft Foundry for Historical Research on Central Asia
This is a guest piece by Aizat Ishembieva. This post describes how structured text extraction and the creation of a…
AI-Generated Feedback: Preliminary Thoughts
A colleague recently posted on social media about their experience using paperreview.ai (Stanford Agentic Reviewer), an AI tool that is…
Buddhism and AI: Another Look
In recent months, I have come to identify as a neo-Luddite or, as a colleague said in jest, “a technophobe…
Loss by Omission: GenAI Summarization Tools and History Knowledge
As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become ubiquitous in our society, AI functions are more accessible and visible. When you use…
Overview of NDL Kotenseki OCR: The Key to Early Modern Japanese Archives?
This article was written by guest contributor Xia-Kang Ziyi (Kyushu University). The author bio is below. One of the biggest…
Editor’s Digest February 2026: Middle Eastern Studies
In my first Editor’s Digest, I summarised publications in The Digital Orientalist from the Middle Eastern Studies team between September…
Hellenistic Central Asia through the Eyes of GenAI – Part 3: Deep Research
This is part three of a three-part series on the biases about Hellenistic Central Asia in generative artificial intelligence (AI) datasets. In this final part, I planned to discuss how Hellenistic Central Asia was biased in conversational AI models, such as ChatGPT 4o and Gemini 1.0, but newer “Deep Research” functions have since replaced and exponentially increased the capabilities of those legacy models.
Editor’s Digest March 2025: Central and South Asian Studies 1
It has been almost a year since my last Editor’s Digest and in that time there have been a few…
Komonjo Camera, the AI App for Reading Cursive Japanese Characters
Overview In June 2023, TOPPAN Corporation released an application for iOS, the Komonjo Camera 古文書カメラ. This was followed by an…