Making a Basic Textual Analysis program in Python
Whether we are involved in Japanese Studies or Islamic Studies, Near Eastern Studies or African Studies, we are all likely…
Category: DH in General
The Value of Digital Outreach
This post has grown out of a Twitter thread in which I addressed a criticism that myself and my husband…
Digital Orientalisms Twitter Conference (#DOsTC) Proceedings
On the 1st of June, The Digital Orientalist held the Digital Orientalisms Twitter Conference (#DOsTC). There were a total of…
Historical Storytelling with Twine
In the classroom environment, it can be difficult to create engaging materials that allow students to learn about the multi-causal…
Creating a “Launcher” Extension for Google Chrome
Users of Google Chrome have long been able to customize their browsing experiences by installing extensions; small pieces of software…
Making and Using a Twitter Bot
By James Harry Morris with thanks to Callum Morris. In August 2018, I developed the Kirishitan Collector Bot, a Twitter Bot…
Announcing a Handbook for DH and Manuscript Studies
Millions of documents have been scanned and stored as images of pages. Now what? For the past 1,5 years I…
DH Project at Utrecht University: Bridging the Gap
At Utrecht University, the project ‘Bridging the Gap: Digital Humanities and the Arabic-Islamic corpus’, seeks to “harness state-of-the art…
Tackling Poetry with Python (2)
In a previous post, I described the preliminary work to do automated analysis on poetry. I now describe the actual…
Difficulties in Keeping a Dialogue About Digital Humanities
Talking about DH on a blog will get some people angry with you. I will discuss here some examples arising from…