‘Back to the Sources’: The First Steps in (Digital) Projects
During my training I was lucky enough to benefit from some of the most authoritative voices in the field of…
Category: DH in General
Social Scientific Applications of Historical GIS, Part 2: Linking and Visualizing Population Data in ArcGIS
This post has been contributed by Emre Amasyali. Information about the author is included at the end of the post.…
Social Media and the Distribution of Knowledge about Missing Syriac Manuscripts
A few months ago, I noticed a plethora of posts on social media about the discovery of the hidden library…
Project Management Tips for the Digital Humanist
Photo by Octavian Dan on Unsplash. As a scholar who has spent nearly a decade working on a variety of…
Simple Map-Making with ArcGIS Online: A Brief Tutorial
As discussed in several of our previous posts by Fatma, Deniz, and Giulia, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a useful…
The Divergence between Digital Humanities and Traditional Academic Fields: Some Initial Points
Several weeks ago, I had a discussion with a rather unhappy senior colleague about the current state of digital Islamic…
Trustworthy, Freely Available Primary Sources for Biblical Studies
Though laity and scholars of other disciplines may not know them, most scholars involved in biblical studies will probably be…
Some thoughts on regular expressions
What are regular expressions and why use them? Those who are interested in the digital humanities or corpus linguistics are…
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…
Disrupting Digital Knowledge Infrastructures: A Status Quo Survey
We are conducting a global survey about the difficulties facing Humanities scholars and students when working in digital environments when…