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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 7h

We are always looking for submissions, all year around!

Are you working on #DH in the fields of Asian, N. African and Middle Eastern studies? Send us your notes, intro pieces and more. All info on our website, digitalorientalist.com.

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 14h

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 14h

#OTD 1 yr ago: Alice Casalini @UChicago introduces DIGA, the created with the intention of digitizing artifacts from Gandhāra scattered all around the world.

Check it out 👇
#streamline #workflow #digitaltools #DHinpractice #DHresources

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The DiGA Project—Digitization of Gandhāran Artefacts: An Interview with Jessie Pons and Cristiano Moscatelli (Part 1)

In the field of Buddhist art, recent years have seen more and more digitization projects that center around the art and archaeology of Gandhāra.1 Produced between the 1st c. BCE and the 5th c. CE, …

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CrossAsia @crossasia.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking language barriers in historical newspaper research! 2 new AI-powered features in the #CrossAsia Newspaper Explorer to explore
📊Show results by similarity
🔍Cross-language search for similar titles
Free for all users!
All info here: sbb.berlin/j4me1
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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 1d

Emma Donington's #newpost is freely available on our website

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 1d

This week, Emma Donington explores the #digital storytelling facilitated by #digitizing the Royal Botanic #Gardens’ collections. The article examines digitised Japanese specimens and showcases Kew’s database platforms, digitisation techniques, and digital collections now public!

#newpost #DHaccess

The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 1d

This week, Emma Donington explores the #digital storytelling facilitated by #digitizing the Royal Botanic #Gardens’ collections. The article examines digitised Japanese specimens and showcases Kew’s database platforms, digitisation techniques, and digital collections now public!

#newpost #DHaccess

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 1d

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Invisible East @invisibleeast.bsky.social · 2d

We are delighted to have finished the latest tranche of translation: our #digitalcorpus now contains 334 #documents in New #Persian, enabling researchers to explore the medieval Islamicate East through stories of everyday life!

Thank you to all team members since 2020 for their work 🎉

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 2d

Let the #DO promote your work! Submit a guest piece, any time, any topic in the #DH worlds of Asian, N. African and Middle Eastern fields.

Submission info here 👉 digitalorientalist.com/submission-g...

The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 2d

#OTD 2 yrs ago

A guest post by @rmostern.bsky.social on the integration of #digitalhumanities in one's research

"What does it mean to assert that a project represents scholarship in the digital humanities?"
check it out 👇

#tbt #dhinpractice

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Quantitative Scholarship as “Low Tech” Digital Humanities

This is a guest post by Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh@ruthmostern Like all terms for disciplines and methodologies, the digital humanities, a label that has been in use since the early yea…

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 2d

#OTD 2 yrs ago

A guest post by @rmostern.bsky.social on the integration of #digitalhumanities in one's research

"What does it mean to assert that a project represents scholarship in the digital humanities?"
check it out 👇

#tbt #dhinpractice

digitalorientalist.com/2023/10/06/q...

Quantitative Scholarship as “Low Tech” Digital Humanities

This is a guest post by Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh@ruthmostern Like all terms for disciplines and methodologies, the digital humanities, a label that has been in use since the early yea…

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Maddalena Poli @madpoli.bsky.social · 5d

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UCLA Library @uclalibrary.bsky.social · 5d

📣 2025-26 grant applications for the UCLA Library Modern Endangered Archive Program (MEAP) are open!

Apply for funding to document, digitize and make accessible at-risk collections from around the world.

Applications due Nov 17, 2025.

Full details and Oct 9 webinar registration: ucla.in/4n8aJGS

2025-26 Modern Endangered Archives Program Grants. Apply by November 17, 2025: ucla.in/4n8aJGS

Call for Applications. MEAP invites applications for its eighth cohort of projects to document, digitize and make accessible collections at risk from environmental conditions, political uncertainty, inherently unsustainable media, inappropriate storage, or communal and social change. All materials created with MEAP funding will be published on the open access UCLA Library Digital Collections platform.

Application Details
All MEAP applications must be submitted online. The online application portal is now open at meap.smapply.io

Preliminary applications due: November 17, 2025
Detailed applications due for invited applicants: February 20, 2026

Funding Available
Regional Grants
Opportunity to expand on previous MEAP digitization. Create digital collections that include cultural heritage materials from three or more institutions, families, or archival repositories.

Project Grants
Funding for digitizing and documenting archival content or curating already-digital assets.

Planning Grants
Funding to evaluate and prepare materials for digitization.

2025 MEAP Application Webinar Thursday, October 9, 2025. 8 a.m. PDT
Register: ucla.in/4nvcb6F

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 5d

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 14d

Do you work with #DH to streamline your workflow?

Do you work with databases or tools that you think are great for research, but not well-known?

The #DO accepts guest pieces on a rolling basis.

Submit your work, and give your work visibility #submissions #openacess
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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 5d

How can we map the journeys of #Sindhi books? 📖

Soni Wadhwa introduces Sindhi Sanchaya - a project collecting and curating metadata from scattered libraries, private collections, and #digital #archives, bringing them together in a single searchable resource.

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#newpost #dhresources

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 6d

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The #DO is run by academics, students, and librarians who volunteer their time to bring to you news from the #DH world. It is the only open-access magazine covering developments and topics in the #DH worlds of Asian, N. African and Middle Eastern fields.

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 6d

#tbt to a piece by Chris Diamond, contributor for #DH in Indian literature and culture

Do you like 🎙️ podcasts?

Diamond and colleagues did one on the topic of digital repatriation. Here, he details the steps behind this work👇

#DHtools #DHinpractice #teaching
digitalorientalist.com/2023/03/17/p...

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 7d

#tbt to a post on little-known resources by our own editor in chief, Rachael Griffiths!

"Resources for Kanjur and Tanjur Studies: Introduction and Review"

The largest database for #tibetan lit.
#dhtools #tbt #dhinpractice #introduction

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Resources for Kanjur and Tanjur Studies: Introduction and Review

The Resources for Kanjur & Tanjur Studies (rKTs) is an open-access digital platform that is currently the largest database of Tibetan canonical literature. Developed by the Tibetan Manuscript P…

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 8d

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 8d

Today Brian Tsz Ho Wong (@edinburghuni) completes his series on the NDLJP Full-Text Search System using the system to identify different locations visited by politicians in the 1940s.

Check out the latest installment, with links to part 1 &2
digitalorientalist.com/2025/09/30/u...

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 8d

Today Brian Tsz Ho Wong (@edinburghuni) completes his series on the NDLJP Full-Text Search System using the system to identify different locations visited by politicians in the 1940s.

Check out the latest installment, with links to part 1 &2
digitalorientalist.com/2025/09/30/u...

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 9d

The DO was started to a wide audience developments and topics in the #DH worlds of Asian, N. African and Middle Eastern fields. It is currently the only platform that does so, as open-access resource.

We incur some costs in running our platforms. Consider #supporting us

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 9d

#OTD a post by Agnes Sung back in 2023! An introduction to online resources to travel along the Silk Road entirely from the comfort of your couch.

#tbt #silkroad #onlineresources #DHinpractice #絲綢之路 #explore

Free access here
digitalorientalist.com/2023/09/29/e...

Exhibiting the Ancient Silk Roads Virtually

The term “ancient Silk Roads” conventionally refers to the historical networks of trade routes spanning West, East, Central, and South Asia, connecting with the Mediterranean World. How…

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 12d

Are you working with #DHtools? Are you doing research involving #DH and want to put some thoughts and results out there?

The #DO accepts submissions on a rolling basis. Give your work some visibility!

Check it out 👉 digitalorientalist.com/submit-your-...

The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 12d

#newpost! By guest contributor Andrew Chittick. A description of his latest project Maritime #Asia in the Third Century CE, using the #ESRI #StoryMap

#Maritimestudies #Vietnam #SoutheastAsia, #India, #MiddleEast #DHinpractice #DHtools

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 12d

#newpost! By guest contributor Andrew Chittick. A description of his latest project Maritime #Asia in the Third Century CE, using the #ESRI #StoryMap

#Maritimestudies #Vietnam #SoutheastAsia, #India, #MiddleEast #DHinpractice #DHtools

🔗 Link in bio

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 12d

No other magazine covers developments and topics in the #DH worlds of Asian, N. African and Middle Eastern fields. It is run by a team of dedicated scholars, librarians, and students, who bring you useful tips and new studies.

All open access!

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 14d

The DO was started with the idea of brining to a wide audience developments and topics in the #DH worlds of Asian, N. African and Middle Eastern fields.

It is currently the only platform that does so, as open-access resource.

Support us

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 13d

@mzorki.bsky.social has been with the #DO for years, specializing in the use of #digitaltools and their application in the study of #Chinesetexts

Check out all her pieces here 👇

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Mariana Zorkina

PhD student at Zurich University. Medieval Chinese literature | Digital Humanities.

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