Interview with Prof. David Michelson: From Syriaca.org to the British Library and Beyond (1)
Between October and November 2025, Prof. David Michelson served as a visiting fellow at the Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO)…
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De-Silencing History: From Private Papers to Public Data in the Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran Project
This is a post by Zhaleh Nayebossadrian | Sapienza University of Rome Introduction: The Digital Turn in Persian Persian Studies,…
Products in Local Chronicles: The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Civilization’s 70-Year Quest for a Treasure Trove
2025 marks the 70th anniversary of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Civilization (Zhonghua Nongye Wenming Yanjiuyuan 中華農業文明研究院; hereafter, the Academy)…
The Olufsen Collection: From 19th-Century Expeditions to Digital Museum Collection – Part 2
This is a guest post by Aizat Ishembieva. This second installment compares the work of Professor Esther Fihl and her…
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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…
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…
From Bonn to Berlin: The Journey of Tibetan Digital Archives (CrossAsia Series Part 3)
Image taken from DTAB CrossAsia In the third and final part of the series, we present one of CrossAsia’s database…
The DiGA Project—Digitization of Gandhāran Artefacts – Part 2
In my last post, I discussed the DiGA project with two of its members – Dr Jessie Pons, project leader,…
PG Sindhi Library: Revisiting the Archive after 18 Months
Archives and archive building hold great potential within the theory and praxis of digital humanities in India. Sindhi, a minor…
Using TEI to study Edward Sylvester Morse’s Japan Diaries in the Peabody Essex Museum Collection (Part 1)
TEI (text-encoding initiative) is a digital humanities method that enriches plain text transcriptions using .xml tags. It is most commonly…