The Changing Role of Textile Making: Text Analysis of Digitized “Lienü zhuan” with Voyant Tools (Part I)
Voyant Tools is a popular website that offers a series of text analysis tools for examining word frequencies, patterns, and…
Month: March 2021
Call for Papers: The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Workshop and Conference 2021
For details on registration etc. please visit this page. In June 2019 and June 2020 The Digital Orientalist held Twitter Conferences…
The Pote Collection of Islamic Manuscripts: The Online Catalogue
I (re)catalogued about over 550 ‘oriental’ manuscripts of the Pote Collection of Islamic manuscripts in the course of two consecutive…
Advancing on the encoding of Loma
As I noted in my first post for the Digital Orientalist in 2018, two 1943 Loma texts remain to be fully translated…
Personal image management software rec from an art historian: Tropy
Doing archival research in the 21st century has many advantages. We are no longer confined to working long hours in…
Manuscripts as Refugees
Very recently we read news about Pope Francis presenting a restored Syriac liturgical manuscript to the Syriac Catholic Bishop of…
Automatic Arabic Translation Using Google: A Test
Several months ago a rather interesting blog post was brought to my attention. This was a post by Christopher Rose…
Online Resources for Chinese Palaeography – Part Two
My previous post introduced a fundamental bit of knowledge to work with online resources for Chinese Palaeography, namely the difference between graphs…
Images of the BUDA: Digital Archives and the Future of Research Using Linked Open Data
The Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, organizing, and disseminating Buddhist literature based in Boston,…