In our new article, Zhaleh Nayebossadrian critically examines the Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran (WWQI) digital archive, which aggregates private family collections to recover women's histories from Iran's Qajar era (1796–1925).

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In our new article, "AI-Generated Feedback: Preliminary Thoughts," @rachaelgriffiths.bsky.social tests paperreview.ai, an AI tool designed to provide human-like peer review feedback for academic papers.

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AI-Generated Feedback: Preliminary Thoughts A colleague recently posted on social media about their experience using paperreview.ai (Stanford Agentic Reviewer), an AI tool that is designed to provide human-like peer review feedback for academic papers. Much to their surprise, they found the feedback to be meaningful and noted that it even echoed some of the comments provided by a human reviewer. Despite some of the suggestions being more aligned towards data science than the humanities, my colleague’s experience was overall a positive one and they planned to keep using it.

AI-Generated Feedback: Preliminary Thoughts

A colleague recently posted on social media about their experience using paperreview.ai (Stanford Agentic Reviewer), an AI tool that is designed to provide human-like peer review feedback for academic papers. Much to their surprise, they found the…

Evaluating LLMs for Linked Data Extraction from Chinese Texts: A Comparative Analysis Background Historical Chinese texts and source notes, preserved in various forms including rare books, special collections, and modern academic databases, present unique challenges for information …

Evaluating LLMs for Linked Data Extraction from Chinese Texts: A Comparative Analysis
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Exploring the Future of Library Cataloging with AI and Multilingual Embeddings This post was written together with Sai Deng (Metadata Librarian, University of Central Florida) and Lihong Zhu (Head of Library Technical Services, Washington State University). Facing the dual ch…

Other articles by Eric H. C. Chow:

Exploring the Future of Library Cataloging with AI and Multilingual Embeddings
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In "Digital Humanities Approaches to Navigating the Early Colonial Hong Kong History", Eric H. C. Chow and Ryan Iu survey digital humanities tools for studying early colonial Hong Kong history.

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Current approaches on Automatic Recognition of Ethiopic script The script used by the Christian cultures of Ethiopia is ancient, developing from the Sabaean script in the first centuries of the common era. It is alpha-syllabic, meaning that each basic sign is …

Current approaches on Automatic Recognition of Ethiopic script
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Ethiopic Miracles: A Database to Link Images and Texts of Marian Miracles The Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean & Egyptian Miracles of Mary Project (PEMM), hosted by Princeton University, aims to bring together the miracles of the Virgin Mary that have circulated in the …

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Ethiopic Miracles: A Database to Link Images and Texts of Marian Miracles
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Read the original article in Japanese:
"古典エチオピア語（ゲエズ語）のデジタルコーパスと写本アーカイブの動向"
www.dhii.jp/DHM/dhm-172-1

Current Trends in Digital Corpora and Manuscript Archives of Classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez) Classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez: ግዕዝ Gəʽ(ə)z), one of the classical written languages preserved on the African continent, has sustained religious and literary development for over a millennium as t…

"Current Trends in Digital Corpora and Manuscript Archives of Classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez)"
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In his new article, "Current Trends in Digital Corpora and Manuscript Archives of Classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez)", @somiyagawa.bsky.social writes about several digital initiatives that are transforming access to Classical Ethiopic (Ge'ez).

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Our new article, "Editor’s Digest March 2026: South Asian Studies (Part 1)", is an editor's digest by our editor of South Asian Studies Yashee Singh ( @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social ).

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Romanization and Transliteration of Korean Language: Social and Technological Dimensions This week’s post was written by Tomasz Sleziak. Sleziak is a scholar in Korean studies (particularly Korean but also global Confucianism) and Post-Humanism, conducting research on Confucian s…

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Romanization and Transliteration of Korean Language: Social and Technological Dimensions
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In our new essay, Tomasz Sleziak explores how Poland and South Korea use digital repositories to preserve national consciousness following their transitions from authoritarianism to democracy.

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We are featured in the new issue of 人文情報学月報 !
In January this year, James Harry Morris wrote about the past, present, and future of the Digital Orientalist in a Japanese-language article in Digital Humanities Monthly (ISSN: 2189-1621).

Full article available here:
www.dhii.jp/DHM/dhm174

(English below)
『人文情報学月報』最新号に、Digital Orientalistの活動が掲載されました！

今年1月、ジェームズ・ハリー・モリスが、「『The Digital Orientalist』：過去から未来へ―発展の軌跡とその方向性」を『人文情報学月報』（ISSN: 2189-1621）に寄稿しました。この記事では、Digital Orientalistの歩みと現在、そして今後の展望について紹介しています。

記事はこちらからお読みいただけます：
www.dhii.jp/DHM/dhm174

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 sensations—people used them as weapons in the constant effort to make more and more abs…

📖 AI, Machine Learning, and Neural Networks: Friends or Foes in the Historical Investigation? (Alice Casalini)
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AI Ethics and the Humanities: A Perspective from Buddhist Studies This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities) and was written by keynote speaker Elaine Lai (Civic, L…

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📖 AI Ethics and the Humanities: A Perspective from Buddhist Studies (Elaine Lai)
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In our new essay, "Buddhism and AI: Another Look," @alicecasalini.bsky.social reflects on her transition from AI optimism to "neo-Luddism," arguing that Buddhism and AI are fundamentally incompatible.

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At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France As Dominique Stutzmann points out in an article for the renowned French media outlet L’Histoire in 2017, paleography has undergone a “digital revolution” over the past ten years. The contribution o…

At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France
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At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France (2) : A Brief History of Handwritten Arabic Text Recognition in France Introduction The first article of this series explored recent advances in the digital study of Arabic script in France in general. It traced the beginnings of digital studies applied to Arabic scri…

At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France (2) : A Brief History of Handwritten Arabic Text Recognition in France
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At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France (3): Bridging Communities and Building the Future Introduction The first article of this series explored the general landscape of digital studies on Arabic script in France. The second narrowed the focus to Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR), trac…

At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France (3): Bridging Communities and Building the Future
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Our new article is part III of "At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France" by Ilyes Mechentel (@unibe.ch). In part III, Ilyed explores why Arabic Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) adoption lags behind Latin scripts despite achieving technical parity.

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Undoing the Canon: How Distant Reading Contributes to a Critical Model of Indonesian Literature In this essay, I argue for an alternative approach to reading Indonesian literature, referred to as distant reading, which challenges canonical hierarchies and contributes to a more critical model …

📖 Undoing the Canon: How Distant Reading Contributes to a Critical Model of Indonesian Literature
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Bits of Literature: Methodologizing Reading Practices for Indonesian Short Stories In my previous essay “Undoing the Canon”, I argued for the urgency of context-sensitive modes of reading Indonesian literature that consider the prolific, ephemeral, and scattered nature of Indones…

📖 Bits of Literature: Methodologizing Reading Practices for Indonesian Short Stories
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In his new essay, Leon Woltermann argues that Indonesian literature cannot be separated from its dynamic system of circulation, which shapes audiences, reading practices, and the nature of literature itself.

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Uncovering Hidden Histories of Artifacts with Arches Platform: A Case Study of Persian Architectural Fragments Museums and collections of Islamic art around the world have dedicated a substantial part of their efforts and fundings to digitizing and making their collections more accessible. This trend is evi…

Uncovering Hidden Histories of Artifacts with Arches Platform: A Case Study of Persian Architectural Fragments

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Bridging Narratives and Data: ResearchSpace 4.0.0 and the Power of Knowledge Graphs Decades ago, one of the main concerns of the cultural heritage community was the lack of digitized data. Although digitization is still an issue in many cultural institutions and efforts and funds …

Bridging Narratives and Data: ResearchSpace 4.0.0 and the Power of Knowledge Graphs

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In her articles for the DO, Dena Shamsizadeh (@adho-org.bsky.social) introduces ResearchSpace 4.0.0 (researchspace.org ) and Arches (www.archesproject.org ), two platforms for the management of cultural heritage data.

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Thrilled that this article in now out!