The Digital Orientalist
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Dedicated to discovering and sharing insights on digital humanities in an inclusive environment! Join us・انضم إلينا・参加しませんか・bize katıl・kasance tare damu. 🗃️ 🌐
Dedicated to discovering and sharing insights on digital humanities in an inclusive environment! Join us・انضم إلينا・参加しませんか・bize katıl・kasance tare damu. 🗃️ 🌐
In our latest blog post, Moeka Kiyohara (University of East Anglia) discusses the relationship between gender-specific speech styles (女ことば and 男ことば) in Japanese and English-to-Japanese machine translation.
Read more on our blog:
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/01/23/s...
Read more on our blog:
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January 23, 2026 at 3:09 PM
In our latest blog post, Moeka Kiyohara (University of East Anglia) discusses the relationship between gender-specific speech styles (女ことば and 男ことば) in Japanese and English-to-Japanese machine translation.
Read more on our blog:
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/01/23/s...
Read more on our blog:
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/01/23/s...
#tbt #otd 2022: a #guestpost by Ulrich Rebstock and Marvin Müller, introducing the AABC – African Alphabets of the Bayreuth Cluster, an application to provide a common linguistic base for all kinds of communication and transfer of information about African vernacular affairs
Check it out 👇
Check it out 👇
January 21, 2026 at 2:37 PM
#tbt #otd 2022: a #guestpost by Ulrich Rebstock and Marvin Müller, introducing the AABC – African Alphabets of the Bayreuth Cluster, an application to provide a common linguistic base for all kinds of communication and transfer of information about African vernacular affairs
Check it out 👇
Check it out 👇
Our latest blog post by Enes Yılandiloğlu presents a computational pipeline for Ottoman Turkish spatial data. From extracting place names with NER to mapping toponyms, Enes highlights hurdles like the absence of punctuation and the complexities of geographic disambiguation.
Link below⬇️
Link below⬇️
January 20, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Our latest blog post by Enes Yılandiloğlu presents a computational pipeline for Ottoman Turkish spatial data. From extracting place names with NER to mapping toponyms, Enes highlights hurdles like the absence of punctuation and the complexities of geographic disambiguation.
Link below⬇️
Link below⬇️
#OnThisDay
On 2024 Jan 19, Maddalena Poli @madpoli.bsky.social shared with us several new online resources and databases for the study of ancient Chinese manuscripts, including 戰國竹簡全文資料庫, 中國古代簡帛字形辭例數據庫 , 開放古文字字型庫, and 漢語多功能字型庫.
Read more:
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2024/01/19/o...
On 2024 Jan 19, Maddalena Poli @madpoli.bsky.social shared with us several new online resources and databases for the study of ancient Chinese manuscripts, including 戰國竹簡全文資料庫, 中國古代簡帛字形辭例數據庫 , 開放古文字字型庫, and 漢語多功能字型庫.
Read more:
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2024/01/19/o...
January 19, 2026 at 12:04 PM
#OnThisDay
On 2024 Jan 19, Maddalena Poli @madpoli.bsky.social shared with us several new online resources and databases for the study of ancient Chinese manuscripts, including 戰國竹簡全文資料庫, 中國古代簡帛字形辭例數據庫 , 開放古文字字型庫, and 漢語多功能字型庫.
Read more:
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2024/01/19/o...
On 2024 Jan 19, Maddalena Poli @madpoli.bsky.social shared with us several new online resources and databases for the study of ancient Chinese manuscripts, including 戰國竹簡全文資料庫, 中國古代簡帛字形辭例數據庫 , 開放古文字字型庫, and 漢語多功能字型庫.
Read more:
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2024/01/19/o...
Our latest blog post summarizes the proceedings of The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025. This year’s materials include both written papers and video recordings!
Find out more: 🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/01/16/a...
Find out more: 🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/01/16/a...
January 16, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Our latest blog post summarizes the proceedings of The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025. This year’s materials include both written papers and video recordings!
Find out more: 🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/01/16/a...
Find out more: 🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/01/16/a...
#onthisday
Following up Zach Butler's new post for us yesterday, a year ago, in his post on January 14th 2025, Zach introduced to us Apatosaurus, a tool created by David Flood (Harvard) for creating, editing, visualizing, and analyzing digital apparatus.
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/01/14/a...
Following up Zach Butler's new post for us yesterday, a year ago, in his post on January 14th 2025, Zach introduced to us Apatosaurus, a tool created by David Flood (Harvard) for creating, editing, visualizing, and analyzing digital apparatus.
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/01/14/a...
January 14, 2026 at 1:31 PM
#onthisday
Following up Zach Butler's new post for us yesterday, a year ago, in his post on January 14th 2025, Zach introduced to us Apatosaurus, a tool created by David Flood (Harvard) for creating, editing, visualizing, and analyzing digital apparatus.
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/01/14/a...
Following up Zach Butler's new post for us yesterday, a year ago, in his post on January 14th 2025, Zach introduced to us Apatosaurus, a tool created by David Flood (Harvard) for creating, editing, visualizing, and analyzing digital apparatus.
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/01/14/a...
In our latest blog post, Zach Butler guides us through Marimo, a tool similar to Jupyter Notebooks and Google Colab, but one that can be saved and executed directly as Python files!
Find out more on our website:
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/01/13/m...
#digitalhumanities #python
Find out more on our website:
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/01/13/m...
#digitalhumanities #python
January 13, 2026 at 3:53 PM
In our latest blog post, Zach Butler guides us through Marimo, a tool similar to Jupyter Notebooks and Google Colab, but one that can be saved and executed directly as Python files!
Find out more on our website:
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/01/13/m...
#digitalhumanities #python
Find out more on our website:
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/01/13/m...
#digitalhumanities #python
In today’s post, Raúl Cervera Álvarez (Universitat de Barcelona) introduces the REDIF Database, an ongoing project that allows users to learn about and research different agents of the Hispanic Monarchy across the globe.
🔗 www.ub.edu/redif/
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/01/09/t...
🔗 www.ub.edu/redif/
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/01/09/t...
January 9, 2026 at 4:23 PM
In today’s post, Raúl Cervera Álvarez (Universitat de Barcelona) introduces the REDIF Database, an ongoing project that allows users to learn about and research different agents of the Hispanic Monarchy across the globe.
🔗 www.ub.edu/redif/
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/01/09/t...
🔗 www.ub.edu/redif/
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/01/09/t...
📫 Our January #newsletter is out!
✨ Featuring recent DO posts, our 'AI and Digital Humanities' conference proceedings, and announcements.
🔗 tinyurl.com/do-Jan26
✨ Featuring recent DO posts, our 'AI and Digital Humanities' conference proceedings, and announcements.
🔗 tinyurl.com/do-Jan26
January 8, 2026 at 5:35 PM
📫 Our January #newsletter is out!
✨ Featuring recent DO posts, our 'AI and Digital Humanities' conference proceedings, and announcements.
🔗 tinyurl.com/do-Jan26
✨ Featuring recent DO posts, our 'AI and Digital Humanities' conference proceedings, and announcements.
🔗 tinyurl.com/do-Jan26
On this week's TBT, we're revisiting the guest post by Zhang Enfu, in which he introduces The Index of Tangut Literature 西夏文獻目錄 Database, a searchable online catalogue compiling major Tangut documents available via www.ccamc.co/index.php 古今文字集成.
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2024/11/01/a...
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2024/11/01/a...
January 8, 2026 at 5:01 PM
On this week's TBT, we're revisiting the guest post by Zhang Enfu, in which he introduces The Index of Tangut Literature 西夏文獻目錄 Database, a searchable online catalogue compiling major Tangut documents available via www.ccamc.co/index.php 古今文字集成.
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2024/11/01/a...
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2024/11/01/a...
In our latest blog post, Leon Woltermann argues that distant reading (looking for patterns across large collections of texts) can help expose this bias by recentering the “great unread,” especially poems and short fiction scattered across periodicals.
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/01/02/u...
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/01/02/u...
January 2, 2026 at 9:14 PM
In our latest blog post, Leon Woltermann argues that distant reading (looking for patterns across large collections of texts) can help expose this bias by recentering the “great unread,” especially poems and short fiction scattered across periodicals.
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/01/02/u...
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/01/02/u...
For #TBT this week, we’re revisiting Alice Casalini’s @alicecasalini.bsky.social Jan 2024 post. In this post, Alice discusses her experiment using Canva and Leonardo.Ai to reconstruct a Gandhāran stūpa and the ethical challenges of applying AI in DH research.
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2024/01/09/a...
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2024/01/09/a...
January 1, 2026 at 8:21 PM
For #TBT this week, we’re revisiting Alice Casalini’s @alicecasalini.bsky.social Jan 2024 post. In this post, Alice discusses her experiment using Canva and Leonardo.Ai to reconstruct a Gandhāran stūpa and the ethical challenges of applying AI in DH research.
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2024/01/09/a...
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2024/01/09/a...
In today’s post, Tiziana Pasciuto discusses how the Semantic Web and its ontologies can be used to challenge and subvert established Orientalist taxonomies and cultural narratives.
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/12/30/f...
#DHingeneral #cataloguing #GLAM #manuscripts
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/12/30/f...
#DHingeneral #cataloguing #GLAM #manuscripts
December 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
In today’s post, Tiziana Pasciuto discusses how the Semantic Web and its ontologies can be used to challenge and subvert established Orientalist taxonomies and cultural narratives.
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/12/30/f...
#DHingeneral #cataloguing #GLAM #manuscripts
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/12/30/f...
#DHingeneral #cataloguing #GLAM #manuscripts
Can #AI help deepen student engagement with #History?
Maciej Kurzynski and Du Chunmei explore this question through HistFig; a custom-built AI system that generates interactive dialogues with key figures from #Chinese history.
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/12/26/v...
Maciej Kurzynski and Du Chunmei explore this question through HistFig; a custom-built AI system that generates interactive dialogues with key figures from #Chinese history.
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/12/26/v...
December 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Can #AI help deepen student engagement with #History?
Maciej Kurzynski and Du Chunmei explore this question through HistFig; a custom-built AI system that generates interactive dialogues with key figures from #Chinese history.
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/12/26/v...
Maciej Kurzynski and Du Chunmei explore this question through HistFig; a custom-built AI system that generates interactive dialogues with key figures from #Chinese history.
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/12/26/v...
For #TBT, we’re revisiting “Using Python to Analyze Greek New Testament Manuscripts” by Zach Butler. Zach demonstrates how to use simple Python code and Jupyter Notebooks to analyze New Testament Greek manuscripts stored in XML-TEI format.
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2024/01/12/u...
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2024/01/12/u...
December 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
For #TBT, we’re revisiting “Using Python to Analyze Greek New Testament Manuscripts” by Zach Butler. Zach demonstrates how to use simple Python code and Jupyter Notebooks to analyze New Testament Greek manuscripts stored in XML-TEI format.
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2024/01/12/u...
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2024/01/12/u...
In our latest blog post, Lu Wang (Western University) introduces the database "China’s Historical Products" (中華歷代物產數據庫), featuring a full-text serachable collection of "Products in Local Chronicles" (方志物產).
🔗Read more: digitalorientalist.com/2025/12/23/p...
🔗 中華歷代物產數據庫: wuchan.ancientbooks.cn
🔗Read more: digitalorientalist.com/2025/12/23/p...
🔗 中華歷代物產數據庫: wuchan.ancientbooks.cn
December 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
In our latest blog post, Lu Wang (Western University) introduces the database "China’s Historical Products" (中華歷代物產數據庫), featuring a full-text serachable collection of "Products in Local Chronicles" (方志物產).
🔗Read more: digitalorientalist.com/2025/12/23/p...
🔗 中華歷代物產數據庫: wuchan.ancientbooks.cn
🔗Read more: digitalorientalist.com/2025/12/23/p...
🔗 中華歷代物產數據庫: wuchan.ancientbooks.cn
#TBT #OTD 2023
"Digital Humanities and Religions in Asia: An Introduction", a blog post by the very founder of the #DO, Cornelis van Lit! Introducing an edited volume on #DH, whose contributors also wrote for the #DO over the years!
chcek it out 👇
digitalorientalist.com/2023/12/22/d...
"Digital Humanities and Religions in Asia: An Introduction", a blog post by the very founder of the #DO, Cornelis van Lit! Introducing an edited volume on #DH, whose contributors also wrote for the #DO over the years!
chcek it out 👇
digitalorientalist.com/2023/12/22/d...
December 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Who is that social media manager again? 🔪🔪
December 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Who is that social media manager again? 🔪🔪
In out latest blogpost "AI Bias-Cancelling for the Interpretation of a Late Qing Dynasty Text," Hong-Yu Hsien (Independent Scholar) introduces the "Bias-Cancelling" method: using AI to reduce a reader's subjective bias, paving the way for a deeper understanding of historical texts.
link below⬇️
link below⬇️
December 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
In out latest blogpost "AI Bias-Cancelling for the Interpretation of a Late Qing Dynasty Text," Hong-Yu Hsien (Independent Scholar) introduces the "Bias-Cancelling" method: using AI to reduce a reader's subjective bias, paving the way for a deeper understanding of historical texts.
link below⬇️
link below⬇️
As always, a reminder that the #DO accepts #guestsubmissions all year round! Send us your work, we want to publish it!
December 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
As always, a reminder that the #DO accepts #guestsubmissions all year round! Send us your work, we want to publish it!
#Newpost
Hong-Yu Hsien explores “AI Bias-cancelling for the interpretation of a Late Qing Dynasty Text.”
How to use #AI for textual research? Here a case study with late imperial Chinese documents
Link in bio
#AI #AIinpractice #DHinpractice #Chineselanguage
Hong-Yu Hsien explores “AI Bias-cancelling for the interpretation of a Late Qing Dynasty Text.”
How to use #AI for textual research? Here a case study with late imperial Chinese documents
Link in bio
#AI #AIinpractice #DHinpractice #Chineselanguage
December 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
#Newpost
Hong-Yu Hsien explores “AI Bias-cancelling for the interpretation of a Late Qing Dynasty Text.”
How to use #AI for textual research? Here a case study with late imperial Chinese documents
Link in bio
#AI #AIinpractice #DHinpractice #Chineselanguage
Hong-Yu Hsien explores “AI Bias-cancelling for the interpretation of a Late Qing Dynasty Text.”
How to use #AI for textual research? Here a case study with late imperial Chinese documents
Link in bio
#AI #AIinpractice #DHinpractice #Chineselanguage
For this week's #TBT Throwback Thursday, we’re revisiting "The Biblical Hebrew Reader Generator" by Jonathan Robker (Universität Münster). In this post, Jonathan introduces a powerful tool that allows you to create a list of Hebrew verses with an automatically generated glossary.
(link below)⬇️
(link below)⬇️
December 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
For this week's #TBT Throwback Thursday, we’re revisiting "The Biblical Hebrew Reader Generator" by Jonathan Robker (Universität Münster). In this post, Jonathan introduces a powerful tool that allows you to create a list of Hebrew verses with an automatically generated glossary.
(link below)⬇️
(link below)⬇️
The DO aims to bring 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.
Write for us! We accept submissions all year round
#guestpost #submissions
Write for us! We accept submissions all year round
#guestpost #submissions
December 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The DO aims to bring 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.
Write for us! We accept submissions all year round
#guestpost #submissions
Write for us! We accept submissions all year round
#guestpost #submissions