Some Thoughts on Databases
The state of semi-lockdown in Japan, and with the universities and their libraries all closed, has allowed me some time…
Month: April 2020
The Syriac Digital Humanities: An Interview with George A. Kiraz, Part 1
This is the second part of a series of posts by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac, based on…
Call for Papers: Digital Orientalisms Twitter Conference 2020 (#DOsTC2020)
Long term readers will likely be aware of The Digital Orientalist’s “Digital Orientalisms Twitter Conference” (DOsTC) which we held on June 1st,…
The role of digital tools in relation to understanding Meroitic
Progress toward understanding the Meroitic script has been well underway since the foundational work of Francis Llewellyn Griffith, published in…
Digitizing Indian Music
This article presents the project of digitization of a large amount of handwritten material that is part of the Fondo Daniélou at Cini Foundation (San Giorgio, Venice).