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…
Month: November 2020
Deciphering Ottoman Turkish Manuscripts with LexiQamus
Sometimes it takes days or even weeks to be able to read and decipher a word in manuscripts. This problem,…
Social Scientific Applications of Historical GIS, Part 2: Linking and Visualizing Population Data in ArcGIS
This post has been contributed by Emre Amasyali. Information about the author is included at the end of the post.…
Turning the page on a 19th century Mende prayer
As I noted in an earlier post, there was one 19th century prayer that had been published in Mende in Latin script…
Online Resources for Chinese Palaeography – Part One
In the field of early China, the end of the 20th century will be remembered by many as a time…
Social Media and the Distribution of Knowledge about Missing Syriac Manuscripts
A few months ago, I noticed a plethora of posts on social media about the discovery of the hidden library…
Social Scientific Applications of Historical GIS, Part 1: Digitizing Historical Maps and Creating District Polygons in ArcGIS
This post has been contributed by Emre Amasyali. Information about the author is included at the end of the post.…
Text-Matching at the Canonical Crossroads: An Introduction to BuddhaNexus (Part I)
BuddhaNexus is a text-matching database with visualization capabilities that draws its data from Buddhist literary corpora in Pāli, Sanskrit, Tibetan,…