A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic: Part 1
This week’s guest contribution is by Ishida Yuri, Okayama University, Special-Appointment Assistant Professor, and Shinoda Tomoaki, Tokyo University of Foreign…
Year: 2021
Interview with Dr. Nathan P. Gibson about Syriaca.org, Part 1
This is the first part of a series of posts by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac, based…
An Interview with Untitled.Showa
Untitled.Showa is a platform that uses crowdsourcing in an attempt to uncover information about and (re)unite a number of old…
A New Year, A New Beginning: The Digital Orientalist, 2021-2022
The Digital Orientalist is back from our summer hiatus! This past academic year marked another great year for the Digital…
Open Call for Editors, Contributors, and Team Members 2021
The Digital Orientalist is happy to announce its annual open call for editors, contributors, and team members. This year we…
Starting the Summer Hiatus
It’s that time of year again – The Digital Orientalist will be going on hiatus until September this year. We…
The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Workshop and Conference 2021: A Brief Report
On June 26, 2021, the Digital Orientalist held a virtual workshop and conference on Zoom. The conference was divided into…
The Pote Collection of Islamic Manuscripts: The Highlights of Eton part (II)
The Pote collection of Islamic manuscripts was brought to England in 1790 and was divided between King’s College and Eton…
Using Voyant Tools with Historical Japanese Texts
Lu Wang’s recent two-piece series (part 1 and part 2) on using Voyant Tools to analyse Chinese language texts captured…
Automated Transcription of a Syriac Work’s Translated Text
During last spring I thought a lot about the topic for this post. I even felt a certain discouragement, which…