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…
Category: African Languages
How to build a community of collaborative transcription? Feed-back from an on-going project
(Part 1) For my first post here on African studies and the use of digital tools, I’ll talk about my…
African LanguagesAfrican StudiesAncient EgyptAncient Near Eastern StudiesCodingCoptic LanguageDH in GeneralDH in PracticeDigitizationEquipmentSoftware
Read and Write Coptic on Your Smartphone: Interview with Mina Makar on Coptic Bible, Dictionary, Keyboard, and Agpeya Apps
Coptic is the last stage of the Egyptian language and is still used at Coptic Christian churches. Coptic uses the…
Making a Unicode Font for the Nubian Language Revitalization Movement
This time, I (So Miyagawa) decided to interview Arbaab (Hatim Eujayl), who is making Sawarda Nubian, an Old Nubian script…
African LanguagesAfrican StudiesAncient EgyptAncient Near Eastern StudiesArchivingCoptic LanguageDH in GeneralDH in PracticeDigitizationEquipmentEvents & ConferencesTeachingTextual AnalysisVisualizationWorkflow
Digital Archiving & Curation – Report from a Session at a recent Digital Humanities Conference in Kyoto KUDH)
By Franziska Naether (Leipzig/Stellenbosch) Franziska Naether (PD Dr. phil habil.) is an Egyptologist, museum curator, and digital humanist with a focus…
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Decolonize University-Based Databases
Based at MIT’s Aga Khan Documentation Center, Archnet (AKDC@MIT) is an open-access resource focused on architecture, conservation issues, environmental and…
AABC – African Alphabets of the Bayreuth Cluster
This is a post by our guest contributors, Ulrich Rebstock and Marvin Müller The application AABC (African Alphabets of the…
African LanguagesAfrican StudiesAncient EgyptAncient Near Eastern StudiesCoptic LanguageDH in PracticeOnline ResourcesSoftwareTextual Analysis
An Introduction to Coptic Scriptorium
This week’s guest contribution was organized by our Editor for Northeast African Studies, So Miyagawa, and was written by Lance…
The epic world of Djibril Tamsir Niane (1932-2021)
One of Guinea’s foremost scholars passed away in March of this year at the age of 89 from COVID-19. Djibril…
Advancing on the encoding of Loma
As I noted in my first post for the Digital Orientalist in 2018, two 1943 Loma texts remain to be fully translated…