Digital Humanities and Ottoman Studies: A Review
Witnessing Ottoman Studies’ recent integration of AI is exciting for the field’s development in terms of its inclusion of wider,…
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From Coordinates to Connections: Mapping People and Places in Ottoman Turkish Texts
Introduction In my previous work exploring the first volume of Künhü’l-Ahbar, Gelibolulu Mustafa Âlî’s work on history and geography from…
From Text to Map: A Reproducible Geocoding Pipeline for Ottoman Studies
This paper presents a computational pipeline for working with spatial data in Ottoman Turkish, from extracting place names via named-entity…
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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…
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…
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…
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The Digital Cold War and Decolonization: Archives, Methods, and Tools
Introduction Up until a few years ago, the history of the Cold War was dominated by interpretations that focused solely…
Digital Resources for Chinese Bronze Research: The Academia Sinica Collection (Part 2)
Part I of this two-part assessment of the Academia Sinica’s bronze inscription research tools examined key features of the ‘Shang…
MapHub: A Brief Tutorial
MapHub allows users to make either thematic or regional maps using Geographic Information Systems as an interactive map. It provides…