The Dunhuang Culture 敦煌文化 Database
Since the last time I covered Dunhuang-related databases to browse online in 2022, a few things have changed. The International…
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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…
Ancient Egyptian Hieratic Palaeography Database: AKU-PAL
Ancient Egyptian civilization, which flourished in the Nile Valley and the Nile Delta, is widely known for its monumental hieroglyphs…
From Vienna to the World: Launching the First Public Syriac HTR Model on Transkribus
Readers of The Digital Orientalist, you are among the first to know! Today’s post is dedicated to the release of…
Partition Revisited: Bridging History and Technology to Trace Refugee Rehabilitation
This is a guest post by Gursimran Kaur Butalia. The Partition of India in 1947 remains a deeply personal and…
The Future of Researching Sartorial Japonisme: Using Digital Archives and Other Helpful Tools
This is a post by contributing writer, Emma Donington-Kiey, an independent researcher and MA graduate of Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies from…
Sources for Nikkei Documents in Brazil
Recently, a new project aiming at collecting and publicizing documents and books related to nikkei (descendants of Japanese emigrants) in…
Ladakh Archaeology: Introduction and Review
In January 2023, Ladakh Archaeology was launched. This is to date the largest database on the heritage of Ladakh, located…
The Marega Collection Database: A Review and Introduction
The Digital Orientalist has long published pieces pertaining to the study of the history of Christianity in Japan. In 2021,…