Digital Initiatives 48 highlights two platforms for the collaborative transcription, translation, and annotation of Asian-language texts. As explored in the reviews below, these include a workspace for crowdsourcing core textual research on premodern East Asian sources, as well as a hub for Manchu studies. The Ten Thousand Rooms Project and Manc.hu both use their digital platforms to increase the accessibility of textual heritage and promote the formation of international scholarly communities online.

Digital Initiatives is a column that explores digital tools, research resources, publications, and learning opportunities in art history and related fields, with a special focus on topics relevant to Ars Orientalis readers. Each volume will present a series of reviews or discussions around an interconnected set of digital resources or projects, written by scholars or other practitioners. If you would like to propose a topic for a future edition of Digital Initiatives, please e-mail Nancy Micklewright at micklewrightn@si.edu.

East Asian Textual Scholarship in the Digital Age: The Ten Thousand Rooms Project

—Alessandro Bianchi

Expanding Access to Manchu Sources: Collaborative Transcription in the Digital Archive

—Olivia Mendelson

Ars Orientalis Volume 48

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