Simple Map-Making with ArcGIS Online: A Brief Tutorial
As discussed in several of our previous posts by Fatma, Deniz, and Giulia, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a useful…
Year: 2020
The Divergence between Digital Humanities and Traditional Academic Fields: Some Initial Points
Several weeks ago, I had a discussion with a rather unhappy senior colleague about the current state of digital Islamic…
Jaina Prosopography Project and Online Open-Source Database Construction
Prosopography, at the most general level, is the collective biography of persons of a particular place or period. However, with…
Trustworthy, Freely Available Primary Sources for Biblical Studies
Though laity and scholars of other disciplines may not know them, most scholars involved in biblical studies will probably be…
Google Lens for Syriac: Something Groundbreaking?
Recently, Google updated its engine on many smartphones in order to add the new technology of Google Lens to its…
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Digitizing the Mongolian Language: An Introduction to the Polyglot “Online Dictionaries and Full-text Search of Mongolian Languages and Written Manchu”
What is the “Online Dictionaries and Full-text Search of Mongolian Languages and Written Manchu”? The Online Dictionaries and Full-text Search…
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,…
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…