Exhibiting the Ancient Silk Roads Virtually
The term “ancient Silk Roads” conventionally refers to the historical networks of trade routes spanning West, East, Central, and South…
Month: September 2023
Train Your Own OCR/HTR Models with Kraken, part 1
How to train custom OCR/HTR models in Kraken
Georgian-Persian Illuminated Historical Documents from K.Kekelidze Georgian National Centre of Manuscripts
The digitization of Georgian-Persian illuminated documents represents an important and urgent cultural and research desideratum. These rare manuscripts remain exceptional,…
Generating Kuzushiji Images with Soan
It is a rarity that writers at the Digital Orientalist explore projects that might be described as “DH for fun,”…
What can you share about your DH project? – Survey Results.
This post is prepared together with Tilman Schalmey (Trier University). Right before going on summer hiatus, we launched a survey…
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Saving, organizing, and sharing data with Wakelet
“For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned,” Benjamin Franklin wrote. Personally, lack of organization has always been…
Digital Architecture in Dunhuang—and beyond: an interview with Dr Zhenru Zhou
In this post, I continue my exploration of digital reconstructions in Asian art historical practice. I virtually sat down for…
The Digital Orientalist: 10 years in the making
Almost 10 years ago, under the nickname of “The DIgital Orientalist” Cornelis van Lit started a blog. The exact date…