LibGuides: Doing Digital Scholarship in Japanese Studies: Tools & Projects

Presenter Projects

See Molly Des Jardin's website and LibGuide for a more extensive list of tools, instructions and discussions.

Mark Ravina's Japanese Text Mining Workshop page has very detailed and useful Handbooks and Guides for analyzing Japanese text using R.

Web-based examples

Web-based analysis tools

Voyant
Text analysis tool. Works with Japanese, including "tokenizing" Japanese texts.
Chunagon (中納言)
A web-based tool to explore and analyze corpora developed at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL). Registration (free) is required.
HathiTrust Research Center
Provides worksets and algorithms to work with text available in HathiTrust digital libraries. (Japanese compatibility not documented).
Juxta Commons
A web-based text collation tool. (Japanese compatibility not documented).

Tokenizer

Web Chamame (Web茶まめ)
A web-based morphological analysis (形態素解析) tool, hosted by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL). Uses UniDic, also developed by NINJAL.
MeCab
ChaSen
UniDic
Tokenizer/morphological analyzer dictionaries developed by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL).

Transcription tools/projects

SMART-GS
A tool to assist collaborative transcription using digitized images. Distributed for free.
Minna de Honkoku (みんなで翻刻: 地震史料)
A crowdsourced project to transcribe historical documents related to earthquakes. (Kojishin Kenkyukai, Kyoto University)
Ten Thousand Rooms
An ongoing project at Yale University to develop a Mirador-based text transcription tool to use with pre-modern Chinese texts.

Learning kuzushiji (Smartphone apps)

International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF)
Loris IIIF Image Server
An example of an implementation of Loris IIIF Image Server at Princeton University Library.
Mirador
An IIIF compatible open source, web-based image viewer.
SAT Taishozo Image DB
An IIIF compliant database of images from Taisho shinshu Daizokyo ( 『大正新修大蔵経』図像部). Integrates Mirador as a viewer.

Omeka
An open source web publishing platform used often to build digital exhibits and front-ends for digital collections.
Omeka Gym
Tutorials and exercises for using Omeka and Neatline (an Omeka plugin), by Alexandra Bolintineanu.
Scalar
A web-based digital publishing platform.

List of Humanities-centric Data Resources (人文科学関連のデータリソースリスト)
A shared Google Sheets list of data sources (and some tools and APIs) potentially available for DH projects.
Digital Resources and Projects on East Asia
An AirTable document organized by Paula Curtis (University of Michigan).