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Editors’ Choice: Where They Actually Went: The Presence Problem in Digitised Travel Writing

Our take: What makes this article particularly compelling is how it questions whether extracting geographical information from historical texts necessarily produces an accurate representation of the past. Using Thomas Roe’s seventeenth-century travel accounts, the author highlights a crucial distinction between places a traveller actually visited and those mentioned through secondhand information. This piece moves beyond […]

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Editors’ Choice: Composing and Inputting Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs with Unicode Control Characters: The Impact of Egyptian OpenType

Our take: In “Composing and Inputting Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs with Unicode Control Characters,” published in The Digital Orientalist, So Miyagawa traces how Unicode has slowly learned to handle the two-dimensional layout of hieroglyphs. Basic signs entered the standard in 2009, but they could only appear in a flat line until control characters for stacking and […]

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Editors’ Choice: Mapping Prefectural-Level Financial Mobilisation in Wartime Japan

Our take: In this post, Brian Wong brings overlooked local archives into conversation through AI-assisted transcription, historical geocoding, and interactive mapping. By tracing the spatial relationships between banks and factories in Kyoto, Wong identifies patterns of wartime financial mobilisation, including newly established Shiga Bank branches located near munitions manufacturers. The post demonstrates how digital methods […]

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Editors’ Choice: The Affective Algorithm: Mapping the Emotional Architecture of Fatimid Geniza Petitions

Editors’ Summary: This two-part selection seeks to better understand and categorize the expressions found in the Fatimid Geniza petitions, a rich primary source for historians of the Mediterranean in the 10th century. The study asks: how are emotional registers distributed across the formal parts of Fatimid petitions? Part one provides context and outlines the methodology […]

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Editors’ Choice: OH in DH: Listening to Memory in the Age of the Digital

Editors’ Summary: This article re-emphasizes a sense of Humanities criticality in DH from the perspective of Oral History and how that becomes even more crucial in the Global South. The author highlights the construction of an oral history archive on Partition. This position leans heavily on the works of Sumallya Mukhopadhyay, who redirects focus from […]

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Editors’ Choice: Marimo Notebooks

Editors’ Summary: In this post, Zach Butler highlights features of Marimo Notebooks, and demonstrates how Marimo is an improvement over Jupyter Notebooks. He points out how difficult Jupyter notebooks are to track by git, making version control and collaboration difficult. Unlike Jupyter notebooks, Marimo notebooks are actual Python files. The interface of the notebook opens […]

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Editors’ Choice: From Rigid Taxonomies to Networks of Relationships: When the Semantic Web Redesigns Cultural Narratives

Editors’ Summary: Tiziana Pascuito’s “From Rigid Taxonomies to Networks of Relationships” uses a case study of Arabic manuscripts to highlight the utility of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, a cultural heritage ontology that allows for dynamic networks. The author demonstrates how traditional approaches classify documents into separate compartments, such as “Astronomy.” Using an ontology based […]

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Editors’ Choice: Teaching Bengali Digital Texts to Anglophone Undergraduates: What Voyant Reveals about the Infrastructural Bias of DH Tools

In designing an introductory Digital Humanities class, I am often faced with the question of how best to incorporate linguistic diversity, particularly from the Global South, for a predominantly Anglophone student body. How do I invite students to critically examine the Anglophone bias underlying much of DH theory and practice without necessarily depending on the […]

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Editors’ Choice: Syriac AI Manuscripts and Fragments: Reimagining Digitally the Damaged Past

The field of Syriac Digital Humanities continues to advance rapidly, moving from basic text recognition (as discussed in my previous posts on OCR/HTR, particularly our launch of the first public Syriac HTR model on Transkribus: From Vienna to the World…) into the realm of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI). Today’s post explores a powerful new possibility: […]

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Resource: Sindhi Halchal Archive: Building on the PG Sindhi Library

The Sindhi Halchal Archive is dedicated to the advertisements published in Sindhi books and magazines in India by writers and small scale publishers producing books after 1947. In the absence of state support or major infrastructure to reach wider audiences all over the country – Sindhis are scattered in different cities in India – it […]

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