Learning about West African Ajami
The study of Ajami texts, those using the Arabic script and various modifications and extensions of it to represent languages…
Year: 2020
Once upon a Camera…
This article gives a basic introduction to photogrammetry by using the Agisoft Metashape software.
An Introduction to the History of Syriac Digital Humanities
This is the first part of a series of posts by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac. This…
Making word clouds with Python
If you have no experience with programming, this walkthrough on how to make a word cloud is just for you.…
Web Scraping with Python for Beginners
Introduction Web scraping is a technique that allows us to extract and copy specific pieces of data from a website.…
Keeping up with Coptic
The digital needs for the Coptic script are becoming better served in recent years, with the introduction of a standard…
Review: Among Digitized Manuscripts by L.W.C. van Lit (Leiden: Brill, 2020)
For this post, I will be reviewing the new book Among Digitized Manuscripts by C. van Lit (Leiden: Brill, 2020), authored by…
The Digital Orientalist’s Recap of 2019
The last year was quite eventful for the Digital Orientalist. It saw a large growth in readership, expansion into new…