THE DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES IN JAPAN AND ITS APPLICATION IN HISTORICAL STUDIES
Abstract
This study surveys the development of Digital Humanities (DH) in Japan and examines how DH methods and infrastructures have been mobilized within historical scholarship, including concrete applications to the social and economic history of Central Asia.
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