Talking about DO at MELA
On Thursday, November 20, I gave a talk about the Digital Orientalist at the conference of the Middle East Librarians…
Category: DH in General
Project Digitize It All: Timed Example
Here is a quick overview of the time involved getting a paper copy of a book into a workable, decent…
The Scholar’s Phone, Fall 2014
I was in the market for a new phone. A ‘smartphone’. Having had my current phone since 2007, I had never…
Project Digitize It All: Post-Production Editing (Video)
Click here to see in five minutes how I create fully searchable black and white PDFs from photos. Such files…
Project Digitize It All: Using a Digital Camera
For digitizing a couple of dozen books at home, fast, I decided to use a digital camera. In this post I detail exactly…
Project Digitize It All: The Aftermath
A while ago I announced the start of a digitization project for my personal collection. At this point, the project is…
How to write e-mails
The art of writing e-mails is, I think, little understood. As part of my strategy to offer reflections on exactly…
Hardware considerations. Price versus features
Today I was looking at new laptops and it got me rethinking my hardware strategy. Here are some of my…
Software for Getting Things Done
Being terribly caught up with other things, I am not able to write a full post on what software to use…
To Scan or Not To Scan
Scanning a book by hand is time-consuming. However, there are good reasons to keep scanning books. Many books are only…