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…
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,…
AI, Machine Learning, and Neural Networks: Friends or Foes in the Historical Investigation?
When AI image generator services were opened to the public on the vast web in 2021, they quickly became viral…
Digital Benin: bringing together scattered historic Benin objects
The kingdom of Benin, in what is now central Nigeria, was a powerful African state from the Middle Ages until…
African and Oceanian Objects in French Museums: Mapping as a Tool for Rethinking Heritage and Historicizing Objects
The collections of African objects in French museums remain rather unknown. Yet the holdings of some 200 French museums contain…
The Historical Museum of Japanese Immigration in Brazil – Digital resources for researching Japanese immigration
Many people may be unaware, but Brazil has the most numerous Japanese community outside Japan, with a population of more…
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Digital Archiving & Curation – Report from a Session at a recent Digital Humanities Conference in Kyoto KUDH)
By Franziska Naether (Leipzig/Stellenbosch) Franziska Naether (PD Dr. phil habil.) is an Egyptologist, museum curator, and digital humanist with a focus…
The Importance of Uncertainty: VR Reconstructions of Ancient Buildings
John Sigmier, Ph.D. student at Pennsylvania University, gives us an insight into an ongoing project to display 3D models of…