The Digital Orientalist

Edited by Taylor Arnold, Margherita Fantoli, and Ruben Ros

📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!

97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.

🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!

私が大会委員長を務めました、令和7年5月開催の『The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social 』誌主催国際会議のプロシーデイングスWeb公開が進んでいます。今回は、スイスチューリッヒ大学ポスドク研究員のステファニー・サンチ @stesantschi.bsky.social 先生と米国カリフォルニア大学サンタクルーズ校講師のドリュー・リチャードソン @dkrichardson.bsky.social 先生による、市民科学浮世絵マッピングプラットフォームに関する共著論文です。閲覧無料ですので是非ご覧ください!

The DO is the only open-access magazine covering developments and topics in the #DH fields of Asian, N. African and Middle Eastern. It is run by a team of dedicated scholars, librarians, and students, who bring you useful tips and new studies.

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Dr. Drew Richardson is at the Department of History and Cowell College at the University of California Santa Cruz

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You can also #listen to this topic by watching the recording of their presentation during our conference

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Dr. Stephanie Santschi is at the Department of Art History, University of Zurich

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This is a #guespost! And you reminder that the #DO accepts submissions on an ongoing basis, all info here

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Another post that follows our #DO2025 #Conference on a #AI and #DH

Stephanie Santschi and Drew Richardson introduce The Drawing from the Crowd Platform exploring how #AI and human intelligence can be combined to help map the locations of #ukiyoe.

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And to close, I published a few more pieces with the @digitalorientalist.bsky.social

which, I remind you, accepts submissions all year round! It's a great way to get your name out and about.

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Your weekly reminder.

Do you have some notes on a #DH project, or a #database you worked with? Write them up in a blog format, and send them in. We would love to publish your work and boos your profile!

#submissions #dh #openacess

#newpost #dhnews

"Imagining a Contextual Tech for Indian Languages: A Postcard from Bahu Bhasa 2025" by Soni Wadhwa

An overview of all the news in #DH and the study of languages in #India

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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 the University of East Anglia and the Sainsbury Inst…

Here is the article, in which Donington-Kiey narrates her interests in collections of sartorial Japonisme in museums, cultural identity, digital museum practice, haute couture, and how this could become a much larger digital humanities project

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#OTD 2 yrs ago

The Future of Researching Sartorial Japonisme: Using Digital Archives and Other Helpful Tools

#japanesehistory #fabricstudies #onlinetoold #DHinpractice

By Emma Donington-Kiey, an independent researcher and MA graduate of Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies

In her work, Qin applies #DH tools to study poetry by two most famous Tang poets, Yuan Zhen 元稹 and Bai Juyi 白居易

The goal is that of comaring the spatial and temporal distribution of sentiments and examines their relationship with imagery in their poetry.

#Tangpoetry #Chinesestudies #DHpractice

Did you miss part one of Qin's work?

It's right here! Today, the second part of her analysis is out on our website.

#Chinesestudies #DH #Dhpoetry #newpost

Here is Qin's presentation, in case you missed it!
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Ziyi Qin is at Beijing Foreign Studies University. She presented her work at the 25 Online #DO Conference.

Every year, the #DO hosts an online conference to present new groundbreaking studies in the #DH world.

All the recordings are available on our channel, 👇
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#Newpost!

Part 2 of “Comparing Sentiments in Yuan Zhen's and Bai Juyi's Poetry: A Computational Analysis Across Time and Space” by Ziyi Qin (Beijing Foreign Studies University) based on the paper of the same title presented at The #DO’s 2025 Conference

Here Qin focuses on the findings

DO Newsletter - December 2025 Edition.

📫 Our December #newsletter is out!

✨ Featuring recent DO posts, our 'AI and Digital Humanities' conference proceedings, and announcements.

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DO Newsletter - December 2025 Edition.

📫 Our December #newsletter is out!

✨ Featuring recent DO posts, our 'AI and Digital Humanities' conference proceedings, and announcements.

🔗 tinyurl.com/DO-Dec25

‘Back to the Sources’: The First Steps in (Digital) Projects During my training I was lucky enough to benefit from some of the most authoritative voices in the field of the Digital Humanities. The most important lesson I learned was that when you want to cre…

#OTD 5 yrs ago

"‘Back to the Sources’: The First Steps in (Digital) Projects"

A #howto process to set up the first steps for a #DH project. Confused on how to start? We got you! 👇

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Remember that anyone can write for the #DO! We receive submissions all year around, on any of the topics we cover.

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Want to know more about So? Check out their website!
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So Miyagawa Hi, I'm So Miyagawa, an associate professor studying linguistics, Digital Humanities, Ancient Egyptian-Coptic, and Historical Corpus Linguistics at the University of Tsukuba, near Tokyo: Please vis…

So Miyagawa is an Egyptologist, Linguist & Digital Humanist. He has been writing for the #DO about #digitaltools to work with #Coptic, #Egyptian history, and #African history more broadly. Find all So's pieces here

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Digital Prosopography of Ancient Egyptian Society Using LOD: The Persons and Names of Middle Kingdom and Early New Kingdom Database This is the English version of the Japanese article at Jimbun Jōhōgaku Geppō (『人文情報学月報』: Digital Humanities Monthly), 159 (1), titled “LOD wo Kushi shita Kodai Ejiputo-shi no Digital Prosopography:…

#OTD 1 yr ago

"Digital Prosopography of Ancient Egyptian Society Using LOD" by So Miyagawa, Contributor for #African Studies.

Here, So guides you to the use of the Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom (PNM) database

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About Yashee Singh Editor for South Asian Studies Yashee Singh is a Research Assistant at the Free University of Berlin, where she contributes to the COMUTE project (Semi-automatic Collation of Different Language Ver…

Yashee Singh joined the #DO this year, to cover applying computational methods to multilingual textual tradition

She is currently a Research Assistant at the Free University of Berlin

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✨ debut post by our Yashee Singh!
Why are Hindi-language PDFs so difficult to extract text from, and to do about it?

Singh explains the challenges behind #Hindi #OCR and offers practical solutions for legacy #fonts, scanned documents, and Unicode-based workflows.

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We are thrilled to share the first of our #proceedings from our conference on “AI and the Digital Humanities” held earlier this year.

Enes Yılandiloğlu’s “Mapping Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing on the Orient” explores digital #cartography, deep #mapping, and #NER.

🔗 tinyurl.com/DOConf1

Old Chinese Prêt-à-porter. A double-edged sword. Sometimes I miss watching movies with commercial interruptions, at the theater or on television. Not only were they a great way to refill your pop-corn bowl without missing anything. Advertisements…

#otd 4 yrs ago: Old Chinese Prêt-à-porter. A double-edged sword.

A post by @madpoli.bsky.social about the pros and cons of digitized data. Easy to access, but it can also mean that fewer people understand what's underneath behind it

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