Making Custom Keyboard Layouts to Transliterate East Asian Languages
Many readers will likely be aware of the Digital Orientalist’s Keyboard Layouts (launched in 2014 and improved upon in 2017)…
Month: February 2021
Early Thoughts on Manuscript Digitization – The Syriac Digital Humanities: An Interview with George A. Kiraz, Part 4
This is the fifth post of a series by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac, based on his interview…
My daily workflow
How are you supposed to work as a scholar in the humanities? What is it, exactly, that we do on…
Defining word boundaries for Modern and Classical Chinese
Basic corpus analysis is an amazing way to start exploring digital humanities. What could be easier? One just needs to…
Digital Ottoman Studies: A New Force in Ottoman and Turkish Studies
In early 2021, a new platform, Digital Ottoman Studies (DOS), was established with the aim of contributing to digital humanities…
Minna de honkoku: An Overview and Reflection
In a piece that I wrote for the Digital Orientalist last year, I compiled a list of digital resources for…
Fingernail Art (II): Three-dimensional Calligraphy and Drawing in the 19th-Century
Part II : Neighbouring Countries and Contemporary artists Abstract Fingernail art is a little known and studied Persian artistic medium,…
Biblical Studies: Material Culture Online and in the Classroom
My recent posts have focused on the biblical text and ways to access it online. Here I will turn to…