The Toyo Bunko Archive: a source of joy and torment
As promised previously, in this post I am leading you in a deep dive into a major digital archive I…
Year: 2022
Taking notes with Notion
“Nowadays, each family produces writings, and every person has a collection. <…> The texts of old pile up high, with…
How to build a community of collaborative transcription? Feed-back from an on-going project
(Part 2) Although we initially thought that the Ethiopian community would find something to satisfy its curiosity, it was clear…
eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 1
State-of-the-art OCR engines use trainable models to perform two consecutive tasks that produce machine-actionable transcriptions. They first segment the position…
ArchivingDH in GeneralDH in PracticeDigitizationHTRIranian StudiesIslamic LanguagesIslamic StudiesOnline ResourcesTextual Analysis
Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 2
This is the second part of an interview with Arezou Azad, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian…
New Testament Greek Manuscripts In Your Pocket: The NT Greek MSS iOS App
The H. Milton Haggard Center for New Testament Textual Studies (CNTTS) is involved in several projects in the field of…
How to build a community of collaborative transcription? Feed-back from an on-going project
(Part 1) For my first post here on African studies and the use of digital tools, I’ll talk about my…
Transkribus in Practice: Abbreviations
In my last article, I wrote about my experiments to improve the accuracy of a Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) model…
ArchivingDH in GeneralDH in PracticeDigitizationHTRIranian StudiesIslamic LanguagesIslamic StudiesOnline ResourcesTextual Analysis
Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 1
This is the first part of an interview with Arezou Azad, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian…
Transkribus in Practice: Improving CER
Since joining the ERC-funded project, The Dawn of Tibetan Buddhist Scholasticism (11th-13th C.)(TibSchol),1 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in…