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…
Category: African Studies
Archiving Gǀui, a Kalahari Khoe Language in Southern Africa
Report of Gǀui Archiving Project By Kanji Kato ROIS-DS Center for Open Data in Humanities/ Tokyo University of Foreign Studies…
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…
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…
Decolonize North Africa’s Historical Records
For the past year, questions of how to decolonize the historical records of North Africa have been in the news,…
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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…