The Digital Orientalist’s Recap of 2020
In 2020, we at The Digital Orientalist have continued to grow our editorial team and our readership. Today we will…
Year: 2020
Data Cleaning Chinese Text with OpenRefine: Punctuation Removal
So you have heard about some cool text analysis tools that identify word frequencies, generate word clouds, and look for…
Book and Document Scanning with the CZUR Aura X Pro
I recently purchased a CZUR Aura X Pro to scan documents and books in my office, home, and at libraries…
Turning a Zotero bibliography into an online, browsable catalog
You can turn any collection of books and articles from Zotero into a website that is easy to search, accessible…
The Digital Syriac Corpus: An Interview with Prof. James E. Walters
In addition to the contributions of the Beth Mardutho Institute to the world of Syriac Digital Humanities (which I have…
Fingernail Art (I): Three-dimensional Calligraphy and Drawing in the 19th-Century
Part I : Iran Abstract Fingernail art is a little known and studied Persian artistic medium, which was used in…
Virtual Reality from Mamluk-Period Cairo
Several months ago, some of my colleagues in Japan launched an online portal through which it is possible to explore…
‘Back to the Sources’: The First Steps in (Digital) Projects
During my training I was lucky enough to benefit from some of the most authoritative voices in the field of…
Digitized Hebrew and Greek Manuscripts: Access and Issues
Biblical work obviously primarily relies on working with “the text.” However, as anyone involved in biblical studies knows, there really…
Visualizing North China Under Japanese Occupation: Digitized Photos of the North China Railway Archive
Digitizing the Visual Legacies of the North China Transportation Company The North China Railway Archive (華北交通アーカイブ) is an online database…