Japanese Studies and the Digital Humanities: Who to Follow on Twitter in 2020
As many readers will be aware Social Media provides an excellent forum for sharing research with a wider academic and…
Year: 2019
Databases and Repositories for the Study of Christian-Muslim Relations in East Asia: A Preliminary List (Part 2)
In the first part of this post, I provided readers with a list of resources for discovering texts and authors…
Cataloging Ethiopian Materials
The prospects for cataloging materials in Ge’ez, Amharic, Tigre, and Tigrinya have greatly improved since the introduction of a system…
Mapping Ancient Indian Urban Spaces
This article deals with GIS in Classical Indian Studies, focusing on the case-study of “Mapping Vijayanagara.”
Photographing Archival Material at the Cadbury Research Library: Some Reflections
I am indebted to both the Cadbury Research Library at the University of Birmingham and the Church Mission Society for…
Online Ritual Web Traffic and the Hindu Diaspora
This post was written by guest contributor Zach Chrisman. Chrisman is a master’s student in Religious Studies at the University of Denver…
Among Digitized Manuscripts: A Book
For years, I have explored digitized manuscripts on this website. It left me prepared, three years ago, to embark on…
Using Kraken to Train your own OCR Models
This is a contribution by Christine Roughan of NYU. Connect with her on Twitter @cmroughan Over the summer of 2019, inspired by the promising results in articles like Romanov et al. 2017, I set out to use the…
Why I still choose to publish in print
I am an advocate for digital solutions. This is kind of an obvious statement for those who have been following…
GSM: A Lesson for Beginners, by a Beginner
Composing a text for a website such as this requires a balancing act between the website’s likely readership. Some readers…