Visualizing North China Under Japanese Occupation: Digitized Photos of the North China Railway Archive
Digitizing the Visual Legacies of the North China Transportation Company The North China Railway Archive (華北交通アーカイブ) is an online database…
Author: Rachael Griffiths
Progress in the transcription of a Mende primary source
In a previous post, “Minding Mende”, I introduced the notebooks of Bokari Kanneh that had been digitized, and were awaiting…
Lifting up Black voices
As I write this, it is the day before George Floyd’s funeral in Houston. It is hard to understate the…
Becoming a PANDiT
This posts introduces PANDiT, aka Prosopographic Database for Indic Texts, a useful tool for any Indologist out there.
The role of digital tools in relation to understanding Meroitic
Progress toward understanding the Meroitic script has been well underway since the foundational work of Francis Llewellyn Griffith, published in…
Digitizing Indian Music
This article presents the project of digitization of a large amount of handwritten material that is part of the Fondo Daniélou at Cini Foundation (San Giorgio, Venice).
Once upon a Camera…
This article gives a basic introduction to photogrammetry by using the Agisoft Metashape software.
Keeping up with Coptic
The digital needs for the Coptic script are becoming better served in recent years, with the introduction of a standard…
Cataloging Ethiopian Materials
The prospects for cataloging materials in Ge’ez, Amharic, Tigre, and Tigrinya have greatly improved since the introduction of a system…
Gearing up for Garay
In 1961, El Hadji Assane Faye was inspired by listening to a radio speech by the president of newly independent…