Wikipedia as an Open Access Tool for Restituting Knowledge on African Past
The Langarchiv project, officially titled “Language as Archive: European Linguistics and the Social History of the Sahara and Sahel in…
Author: Anaïs Wion
Islam West Africa Collection: Dataset, Distant Reading, and Uses of AI for Discourse Analysis
Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC), created and maintained by F. Madore, is an open-access database that provides access to press clippings from the mainstream press in West African (Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo, Niger, Nigeria) as well as Islamic publications, and video recordings, all of those documents related to Islam. Complex tools enable discourse analysis and answer various scientific questions through keywords mapping, topic modelling, sentiment analysis and spatial visualization.
Ethiopic Miracles: A Database to Link Images and Texts of Marian Miracles
The Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean & Egyptian Miracles of Mary Project (PEMM), hosted by Princeton University, aims to bring together the…
Digitising the Archives of a Rural Radio in Mali: A Transnational Project
The Malian radio station in Kayes, close to the Senegalese border, was founded in 1988, as part of an Italian…
The Consortium DISTAM (DIgital STudies Africa, Asia, Middle East): structuring DH in areal studies in France
Since 2022, DISTAM (DIgital STudies Africa, Asia, Middle East) has been a consortium of the French research infrastructure Huma-Num. It…
Digital Benin: bringing together scattered historic Benin objects
The kingdom of Benin, in what is now central Nigeria, was a powerful African state from the Middle Ages until…
Current approaches on Automatic Recognition of Ethiopic script
The script used by the Christian cultures of Ethiopia is ancient, developing from the Sabaean script in the first centuries…
Cocoon: A Platform for Documenting the World’s Languages
Since 2006, the French linguist community has had a tool for depositing the sound sources that document the world’s linguistic…
African and Oceanian Objects in French Museums: Mapping as a Tool for Rethinking Heritage and Historicizing Objects
The collections of African objects in French museums remain rather unknown. Yet the holdings of some 200 French museums contain…
How to build a community of collaborative transcription? Feed-back from an on-going project
(Part 2) Although we initially thought that the Ethiopian community would find something to satisfy its curiosity, it was clear…