Exploring Wellcome Collection’s Karshuni Manuscripts
Written by Rosie Maxton. Wellcome Collection comprises close to 1000 Arabic manuscripts, showcasing a vast array of genres, historical periods…
Year: 2022
Interviewing Dr. Naomi Appleton about Jātaka Stories
This is a guest post by Udita Das. Jātaka Stories is a free online repository of jātaka tales. Jātakas are…
Just give me a font!
The headache of working with archaic Chinese orthographies Technologically, we scholars of the 21st century are spoiled. We sit at…
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New Working Group for Linked Manuscript Descriptions, part 2
This is the second post in an interview of Prof. Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent and Prof. David A. Michelson, who were…
Streamlining Your Academic Digital Workflow #1: Reading and Annotating with LiquidText
A while ago, I wrote a piece arguing that we, as researchers in the humanities, need a better system to…
Decolonize North Africa’s Historical Records
For the past year, questions of how to decolonize the historical records of North Africa have been in the news,…
Introduction to eScriptorium, HTR for Hebrew Manuscripts, part 2
The first part of this post covered starting a project with eScriptorium and properly segmenting a page to prepare it…
Sharing and assessing teaching materials with MERLOT
When it comes to teaching/learning resources on the internet, it is incredible to see their proliferation, especially after the last…
Call for Papers: The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2022
Call for Papers: Abstract deadline: 1 MayPaper submission deadline: 11 JuneDate of the conference: 25 June Submission form We are…
Introduction to eScriptorium, HTR for Hebrew Manuscripts, part 1
Exegetes interested in textual criticism need ready access to digitized and digitalized versions of Hebrew manuscripts so that they must…