Digital Scholarship Tools for Japanese Studies: Mapping resources
A guide to resources for digital humanities projects related to Japanese language materials. Special thanks to Andrew P. Nelson for the initial guide.
Mapping resources
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Center for Open Data in The HumanitiesCentral landing page for a digital humanities center with members from the National Institute of Informatics and the Institute of Statistical Mathematics. Bountiful open source databases and code packages that cover a variety of disciplines. Notable projects are highlighted elsewhere in this document.
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Edomi - Data Portal for Edo ResourcesA centralized portal for images and documents related to Edo travel, shopping, maps, food, arts, government, economy, natural disasters, news, and education.
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Bukan Complete CollectionDatabase of daimyo and their personnel, with domain maps, animated sankin kōtai maps and more. Documents are KuroNet linked for Kuzushiji OCR.
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Digital Silk RoadA central location for databases of rare books, historical gazetteers, maps of ruins, maps of Old Beijing, Buddhist cave temples, and more.
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Geoshape RepositoryCentral landing site for repositories of geographic entity data.
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GeoNLP Python Code for Place Name ExtractionOpen source software for extracting place names from historical maps. Builds dictionaries that associate place names with positional information.
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GeoLODA service for searching for and sharing toponym data.
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Differential Reading PlatformA platform for comparing similar texts and viewing, with AI assistance, minute changes from version to version. Useful for comparing sequential issues of gazetteers, serial portraits, etc. Includes open source code.
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