Comparing Digital Materials from Berlin, Munich, and Leipzig
A hands-on comparison of the digital materials from the manuscript collections of the Staatsbibliothek Berlin, Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek Munich, and the Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig.…
Year: 2015
al-Ghazālī on Archiving and Backups
Whilst reading al-Ghazālī’s Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn, I came to think of a new way to visualize both my archive and my…
Comparing Digital Materials from Paris
A hands-on comparison of the digital materials from the manuscript collections of Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF, Paris), and a review of…
The future of document scanning: we are not there yet
Evernote’s new automatic document scanner is an interesting look at how we will be able to scan text materials with…
Comparing Digital Materials from Tehran
A hands-on comparison of the quality of digital materials offered by the manuscript collections from Tehran. Digitization projects have been taken…
Comparing Digital Materials from Istanbul
A hands-on comparison of the quality of digital materials offered by the manuscript collections from Istanbul. Digitization projects have been taken…
Book Repositories for Islamic Studies (not a preliminary list)
I shall not attempt to put together a list of online repositories for books related to Islamic Studies, whether it…
Does anyone have a PDF of…
It is the number one question of our days. “Does anyone have a PDF of…” What does this question mean?…
Full-Text Online Arabic Sources: A Preliminary List
A truly epic amount of Arabic books, both classical and modern, have been scanned already. But what is the status…
The Sony Hack: What Scholars Can Learn From It
Connectivity has been touted as an absolute good. All your data should be available on all your devices, everywhere. However,…