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…
Year: 2020
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).
Digital Humanities Japan: Building Community and Sharing Resources
This week’s post has been contributed by Paula R. Curtis, Hoyt Long, Molly Des Jardin and Mark Ravina. Information about…
Some Reflections on COVID-19 and the Digitization of Research and Teaching
I have found in my short career as an academic that in spite of its growing popularity there is a…
ScanTailor: Installation Instructions and Impressions
When we cannot find a digitized version on the internet, we photograph or scan a book or article ourselves. We…
Some Thoughts about Arabic-Script OCR
Recently, as a result of my current research project —an edition and translation of al-Maqrizi’s fifteenth-century chronicle al-Suluk for the Ayyubid period…
Some notes on the usability of the Zotero Reference Manager for Historical Research
This post was written by guest contributor Jasper Bernhofer. Bernhofer received a Bachelor’s Degree in Middle Eastern Studies and Philosophy…
Cursive Japanese and OCR: Using KuroNet
The Center for Open Data in the Humanities’ KuroNet Kuzushiji Ninshiki Sābisu (KuroNetくずし字認識サービス) launched late last year. KuroNet is a…