Some Short Reflections on Lists
In the past, the Digital Orientalist celebrated the virtues of brevity by regularly publishing short pieces, thoughts, and reflections. Some…
Category: DH in General
Dissertating in the Digital Age: Research and Writing Tools for Organization and Productivity
This post was written by guest contributor Bihter Esener. Esener is currently a Freer Visiting Graduate Student Fellow in the…
Some Thoughts on Databases
The state of semi-lockdown in Japan, and with the universities and their libraries all closed, has allowed me some time…
Digital Humanities Japan: Building Community and Sharing Resources
This week’s post has been contributed by Paula R. Curtis, Hoyt Long, Molly Des Jardin and Mark Ravina. Information about…
Some Reflections on COVID-19 and the Digitization of Research and Teaching
I have found in my short career as an academic that in spite of its growing popularity there is a…
Some Thoughts about Arabic-Script OCR
Recently, as a result of my current research project —an edition and translation of al-Maqrizi’s fifteenth-century chronicle al-Suluk for the Ayyubid period…
Some notes on the usability of the Zotero Reference Manager for Historical Research
This post was written by guest contributor Jasper Bernhofer. Bernhofer received a Bachelor’s Degree in Middle Eastern Studies and Philosophy…
Once upon a Camera…
This article gives a basic introduction to photogrammetry by using the Agisoft Metashape software.
An Introduction to the History of Syriac Digital Humanities
This is the first part of a series of posts by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac. This…
Making word clouds with Python
If you have no experience with programming, this walkthrough on how to make a word cloud is just for you.…