Jaina Prosopography Project and Online Open-Source Database Construction
Prosopography, at the most general level, is the collective biography of persons of a particular place or period. However, with…
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Digitizing the Mongolian Language: An Introduction to the Polyglot “Online Dictionaries and Full-text Search of Mongolian Languages and Written Manchu”
What is the “Online Dictionaries and Full-text Search of Mongolian Languages and Written Manchu”? The Online Dictionaries and Full-text Search…
Learning about West African Ajami
The study of Ajami texts, those using the Arabic script and various modifications and extensions of it to represent languages…
Mapping Ancient Indian Urban Spaces
This article deals with GIS in Classical Indian Studies, focusing on the case-study of “Mapping Vijayanagara.”
Making online interactive maps with Leaflet (Part 2)
In the first part of my post about making maps with Leaflet, I had explained the basics of creating an…
Encountering the Vai script
I have never been to Liberia. I tried to get there once, in 2009, for the Liberian Studies Association conference…
A close look at N’ko
One of the more curious African scripts around is one that I was introduced to by Joe Lauer, a librarian…
Encoding the Bassa Vah script of Liberia
The tale of how the Bassa Vah script came to be encoded into the Unicode Standard winds through Syracuse, Germany,…
Notes on the Study of Loma
A script was developed in the 1930’s for the Loma language by Widɔ Zoɓo of Boneketa, Liberia. While it has…