Georeferencing Historical Maps: Applying Map Warper to Ottoman Urban History
Digital research methods and software that allow spatial analysis enable different research questions to be produced by moving cities, places,…
Month: September 2020
Some thoughts on regular expressions
What are regular expressions and why use them? Those who are interested in the digital humanities or corpus linguistics are…
Time and pragmatism in the digital humanities: TEI and Juxta Commons for South Asian manuscript collation
The best advice I had when starting out with digital humanities came from David Beavan and was simply to only…
Progress in the transcription of a Mende primary source
In a previous post, “Minding Mende”, I introduced the notebooks of Bokari Kanneh that had been digitized, and were awaiting…
A brief introduction to some digital resources for Korean Studies
This year, scholars and students across the globe have been forced to conduct research and gather materials for their projects…
The Syriac Digital Humanities: An Interview with George A. Kiraz, Part 2
This is the third part of a series of posts by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac, based on…
Some tools for quickly transliterating Chinese characters
Students, librarians, and non-Sinologists who occassionally interact with Chinese language sources may want to speed up the process of transliterating…
A Digital Introduction to the Chinese Buddhist Canon
The Chinese Buddhist canon contains canonical Buddhist literature as recognized in East Asia. Early practitioners interacted with one of the…
The Dawn of a New Era: The Digital Orientalist, 2020-2021
Last year was an interesting and exciting year for the Digital Orientalist: we affiliated with the American Oriental Society, we…