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…
Year: 2023
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…
The Database of Medieval Chinese Texts: A Critical Overview (part one)
This is a guest post by Laurent Van Cutsem (Ghent University). Part 2 can be read here. Part I: The…
DREAMSEA
This is guest post by Mark Boersma. Recently I came across a website of a project on manuscripts from Southeast…
Databases of premodern Chinese manuscripts and languages upped their game.
And they are playing to win. In a post from 2021, I introduced the database Guyin xiaojiing 古音小鏡 (Little Mirrors…
The Multidisciplinary DH Classroom: Material Culture meets Digital Curation in Re-Envisioning Japan
This is a gust post by Joanne Bernardi This post introduces readers to Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th…
Podcasting as Digital Storytelling in Research and Outreach
Oh great, yet another podcast! Like many researchers, I find myself listening to more diverse types of academic media in…