Scripts That Don’t Fit: The Hidden Bias of NLP in South Asian Languages
This is a guest post by Saniya Irfan. Digital Humanities in South Asia often begins with negotiating invisibility, the invisibility…
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An Overview of Digital Tools and Resources for Central and South Asian Studies Reviewed by The DO Members
This overview is inspired by Maddalena Poli’s recent post, which (re-)introduces East Asian Studies resources featured in The DO. Since…
Syriac AI Manuscripts and Fragments: Reimagining Digitally the Damaged Past
The field of Syriac Digital Humanities continues to advance rapidly, moving from basic text recognition (as discussed in my previous…
The Olufsen Collection: From 19th-Century Expeditions to Digital Museum Collection – Part 1
This is a guest post by Aizat Ishembieva. The National Museum of Denmark houses one of the most significant 19th-century…
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…
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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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…
The Demotic Palaeographical Database Project: A Digital Repository of Ancient Egyptian Demotic Script and Text Corpora
In my previous discussion, I examined AKU-PAL, the palaeographical database for hieratic script among ancient Egyptian writing systems. This article…
Global DH vs. Area Studies: Rethinking “China and the West (Rest)” Beyond Lenticular Logic
In her essay “Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation,” Tara McPherson…
Beyond Rows and Columns: Visualising Data with RAWGraphs
One of the biggest challenges of working with large (and often incomplete) collections of data lies in how best to…