Old Maps Online: mapping sites and siting maps
After my recent deep dive into Toyo Bunko, in this post I will talk about another great digital tool for…
Tag: Digitization
MapHub: A Brief Tutorial
MapHub allows users to make either thematic or regional maps using Geographic Information Systems as an interactive map. It provides…
The Toyo Bunko Archive: a source of joy and torment
As promised previously, in this post I am leading you in a deep dive into a major digital archive I…
eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 1
State-of-the-art OCR engines use trainable models to perform two consecutive tasks that produce machine-actionable transcriptions. They first segment the position…
How to build a community of collaborative transcription? Feed-back from an on-going project
(Part 1) For my first post here on African studies and the use of digital tools, I’ll talk about my…
Digital resources for the study of Buddhist Art in Central Asia: a general overview
When it comes to Buddhist studies, the number of online resources can feel very overwhelming – from the thousands of…
Shuge: Visual Materials in a Digitizing World
Shuge 書格 is a free, online database of Chinese rare books, which offers a continuously expanding collection of high-quality scans for…
Visualizing North China Under Japanese Occupation: Digitized Photos of the North China Railway Archive
Digitizing the Visual Legacies of the North China Transportation Company The North China Railway Archive (華北交通アーカイブ) is an online database…