Digital Humanities in Motion: When Pop Culture Rewrites Aging
This guest contribution was written by Virgine Borges de Castilho Sacoman, MS to PhD student in Sociology at the University…
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Why Extracting Hindi Text from PDFs Is So Much Harder Than English (And How You Can Do It)
As a Digital Humanities student working with Hindi-language texts, I expected extracting text from a Hindi PDF to be a…
Teaching Bengali Digital Texts to Anglophone Undergraduates: What Voyant Reveals about the Infrastructural Bias of DH Tools
In designing an introductory Digital Humanities class, I am often faced with the question of how best to incorporate linguistic…
The Olufsen Collection: From 19th-Century Expeditions to Digital Museum Collection – Part 2
This is a guest post by Aizat Ishembieva. This second installment compares the work of Professor Esther Fihl and her…
The Versatility of the Home in Mists – Oversea Edition
The database Home In Mists – Oversea edition 白雲深處人家海外站 is an edition based outside of China of a database by…
Scripts That Don’t Fit: The Hidden Bias of NLP in South Asian Languages
This is a guest post by Saniya Irfan. Digital Humanities in South Asia often begins with negotiating invisibility, the invisibility…
Syriac AI Manuscripts and Fragments: Reimagining Digitally the Damaged Past
The field of Syriac Digital Humanities continues to advance rapidly, moving from basic text recognition (as discussed in my previous…
The Olufsen Collection: From 19th-Century Expeditions to Digital Museum Collection – Part 1
This is a guest post by Aizat Ishembieva. The National Museum of Denmark houses one of the most significant 19th-century…
The Dunhuang Culture 敦煌文化 Database
Since the last time I covered Dunhuang-related databases to browse online in 2022, a few things have changed. The International…
Digital Storytelling in the Digitisation of Japanese Botanical Specimens in RBG, Kew’s Collections
For the past year and a half, I have worked as a digitisation quality assurance and team leader at Royal…