Web Scraping with Python for Beginners
Introduction Web scraping is a technique that allows us to extract and copy specific pieces of data from a website.…
Category: DH in General
Review: Among Digitized Manuscripts by L.W.C. van Lit (Leiden: Brill, 2020)
For this post, I will be reviewing the new book Among Digitized Manuscripts by C. van Lit (Leiden: Brill, 2020), authored by…
The Digital Orientalist’s Recap of 2019
The last year was quite eventful for the Digital Orientalist. It saw a large growth in readership, expansion into new…
Photographing Archival Material at the Cadbury Research Library: Some Reflections
I am indebted to both the Cadbury Research Library at the University of Birmingham and the Church Mission Society for…
Online Ritual Web Traffic and the Hindu Diaspora
This post was written by guest contributor Zach Chrisman. Chrisman is a master’s student in Religious Studies at the University of Denver…
Among Digitized Manuscripts: A Book
For years, I have explored digitized manuscripts on this website. It left me prepared, three years ago, to embark on…
Why I still choose to publish in print
I am an advocate for digital solutions. This is kind of an obvious statement for those who have been following…
GSM: A Lesson for Beginners, by a Beginner
Composing a text for a website such as this requires a balancing act between the website’s likely readership. Some readers…
Making online interactive maps with Leaflet (Part 2)
In the first part of my post about making maps with Leaflet, I had explained the basics of creating an…
What is it like to be at a digital humanities conference?
I came to DH2019 with the question: surely this is not my tribe, is it? I had the advantage, incentive even,…