Sinhala Manuscripts at Wellcome Collection: Collaborative Practice and Cultural Heritage
Over the last few years, a collaborative project has been developing between the Sinhala Buddhist organisations the International Centre for…
Author: Adrian Plau
Dr Sami Ibrahim Haddad – the surgeon and his manuscripts
This guest post is written by Lara Salha, archivist at Wellcome Collection, and gives us an introduction to her work…
Exploring Wellcome Collection’s Karshuni Manuscripts
Written by Rosie Maxton. Wellcome Collection comprises close to 1000 Arabic manuscripts, showcasing a vast array of genres, historical periods…
From the Land of Braj: A Photographic Database
From the Land of Braj, Centre of Krishna Pilgrimage is an online database developed by SOAS, thanks to funding from…
Legacy cataloguing and TEI: David Pingree and Wellcome Collection
By Alexandra Eveleigh, Stephanie Cornwell, and Adrian Plau. Wellcome Collection holds one of the world’s most unique manuscript collections. The…
Kitāb or kitaab: improving search and discovery for global languages
Written by Lara Salha, Harrison Pim, James Gorrie, and Adrian Plau. Wellcome Collection holds a diverse collection of multilingual items, ranging…
Manuscripts, Mapping, and Provenance
The Digital Orientalist has given us many examples of the uses of digital cartography or, more simply, mapping. Ranging from…
Time and pragmatism in the digital humanities: TEI and Juxta Commons for South Asian manuscript collation
The best advice I had when starting out with digital humanities came from David Beavan and was simply to only…