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…
Year: 2021
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…
Mapping A Thousand Buddhist Monasteries in Mongolia: Introducing the Digital Database “Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries”
What is the Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries The Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries is an online database featuring more than a…
Codicological Visualization of a Syriac Manuscript with VisCodex
A data model for modelling and visualizing the structure of books in codex formats has existed since the middle of…
Building tools with Bété, Mende, and Kpelle users
While proposals for Unicode inclusion of the Bété and Kpelle scripts are being developed, there has been some interest on…