The Database of Medieval Chinese Texts: A Critical Overview (part two)
This is a guest post by Laurent Van Cutsem (Ghent University). Part II: The Database of Medieval Chinese Texts: A Critical…
Month: April 2023
Knight Lab JS and Storytelling Tools
Knight Lab, produced by Northwestern University, is a community of designers, developers, students, and educators working on experiments designed to…
Sources for Nikkei Documents in Brazil
Recently, a new project aiming at collecting and publicizing documents and books related to nikkei (descendants of Japanese emigrants) in…
Digital Resources for Chinese Bronze Research: The Academia Sinica Collection (Part 2)
Part I of this two-part assessment of the Academia Sinica’s bronze inscription research tools examined key features of the ‘Shang…
eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 3
OCR of historical printing in Bengali using segmentation and recognition models trained in Kraken from an annotated dataset of Bengali texts published between 1860 and 1940.
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Accessibility of Texts and Tools in Ancient Studies: Reframing the Discussion
This is a guest post by Sarah Blake LaRose. As a scholar of biblical studies who is blind, I often…
Ladakh Archaeology: Introduction and Review
In January 2023, Ladakh Archaeology was launched. This is to date the largest database on the heritage of Ladakh, located…
Procreate and the power of visualization tools
Reconstruction has always been part of the practice of art historians, archaeologists, and artists. Even as far back as the…