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@digitalorientalist.bsky.socialThis is the final 🧵of our @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social
takeover! How important are the conventions we choose? 👀🔍
@digitalorientalist.bsky.socialFrom Scanned Travel Books to a Page-Aware Corpus: Testing Microsoft Foundry for Historical Research on Central Asia
This is a guest piece by Aizat Ishembieva. This post describes how structured text extraction and the creation of a page-referenced corpus can support research on nineteenth- and…
@nkivilcimyavuz.bsky.socialReposted by @digitalorientalist.bsky.socialFab thread on #dragons from @digitalorientalist.bsky.social who took over @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social account earlier today!
@digitalorientalist.bsky.social📨 Our first newsletter of the academic year is out now!
In this edition: Introducing the Team, The DO in Review, The DO in Preview, The DO Side Quest and Announcements ✨
@digitalorientalist.bsky.socialToday's 🧵 is all about 🐉📜!
@digitalorientalist.bsky.social✨ Day two of our @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social takeover! Today's 🧵looks at some of the challenges we face when applying digital tools to non-Western manuscripts...
@brianthwong.bsky.socialReposted by @digitalorientalist.bsky.socialMy latest post for @digitalorientalist.bsky.social. I experimented with Codex and IMMARKUS to extract and map geographical data from wartime Japanese directories. Click on the post to play with the interactive map!
@digitalorientalist.bsky.social🚨 New piece by brianthwong.bsky.social! A must read for those interested in mapping and understanding the full process of data extraction through to visualisation.
@digitalorientalist.bsky.socialFirst 🧵 from our takeover!
@digitalorientalist.bsky.socialMapping Prefectural-Level Financial Mobilisation in Wartime Japan The Japanese government was able to sustain total war against the Allied Powers for almost half a decade after losing foreign loans and reserves and being subject to sanctions. It did so by systematically mobilising civilian wealth…
@digitalorientalist.bsky.socialLooking forward to our takeover of @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social next week! 👀
@digitalorientalist.bsky.socialDigital 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, more global audiences, the emergence of new research fields, the application of advanced technologies to archival…
@digitalorientalist.bsky.socialEditor’s Digest – Central Asia 2025/6 2025/6 was my first year as editor for Central Asian Studies at The DO, having previously been a contributing writer for Northeast Asian Studies. It has been an illuminating experience to collaborate with the Central Asian Studies writers over the last 12…
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@digitalorientalist.bsky.socialOral Histories from Sindhi Libraries in India: Infrastructures around Sindhi Literature
My previous work on Sindhi literature in post-Partition involves PG Sindhi Library, Sindhi Halchal Archive, and Sindhi Sanchaya. Posts dealing with each of these projects can be found here. In this post, I…
@digitalorientalist.bsky.socialOn TRAJECTORIA: An Interview with Prof. Kawase Itsushi (NIHU DH × The DO Interviews #1) This is our first interview as part of the NIHU DH × The DO Interviews. This series features interviews with researchers working at institutions affiliated with the National Institutes for the Humanities…
@digitalorientalist.bsky.social📖 Woltermann's other posts on the distant reading of #Indonesian literature can be found here 👇
digitalorientalist.com/author/leonw...
#southeastasianstudies #indonesianliterature #visualisation #criticalDH #digitalhumanities
@digitalorientalist.bsky.socialIn our first post of the 2026/27 year, Leon Woltermann continues probing how #digital approaches can aid distant reading & challenge canonical bias.
Using a context atlas, Woltermann visualises spatial context across thousands of Indonesian literary works.
@antidote-network.bsky.socialReposted by @digitalorientalist.bsky.social📢 Applications are now open for the 3rd Year of the #ANTIDOTE training programme!
Learn to model digital editions in Klosterneuburg 🇦🇹 and Prague 🇨🇿
Application deadline: 7 October
antidote.hi.is/apply
@digitalorientalist.bsky.social📣 A reminder that we now accept rolling submissions!
If you’re interested in contributing to The DO this year, take a look at our submission page 👇 or contact Niels Lee, our Editor for Guest Submissions, at guestposts.digitalorientalist[at]gmail.com
