A Solution for the Mess of Online Bookmarking?
I believe that I am not the only person who often ends up having multiple tabs open on my browser…
Category: DH in Practice
African LanguagesAfrican StudiesAncient EgyptAncient Near Eastern StudiesCoptic LanguageDH in PracticeOnline ResourcesSoftwareTextual Analysis
An Introduction to Coptic Scriptorium
This week’s guest contribution was organized by our Editor for Northeast African Studies, So Miyagawa, and was written by Lance…
Easily Creating Synopses for Biblical Languages in Different Directions
Synopses represent an important and user-friendly tool for the comparison of versions of biblical texts. Whether for deepening one’s own…
An Interview with Untitled.Showa
Untitled.Showa is a platform that uses crowdsourcing in an attempt to uncover information about and (re)unite a number of old…
Automated Transcription of a Syriac Work’s Translated Text
During last spring I thought a lot about the topic for this post. I even felt a certain discouragement, which…
Kitāb or kitaab: improving search and discovery for global languages
Written by Lara Salha, Harrison Pim, James Gorrie, and Adrian Plau. Wellcome Collection holds a diverse collection of multilingual items, ranging…
Classical Language Tools
Visitors to my personal blog know that I am currently wrestling with a particular Greek biblical tradition of the book…
Seeing the Forest from the Trees: A Reflection on the Challenges of Digital Analysis in Buddhist Studies
The first time I attempted to integrate digital tools into my research, I had a common experience: I had my…
Buddhist StudiesDH in GeneralDH in PracticeDigital CartographyDigitizationMongolian StudiesOnline ResourcesSoftwareVisualization
Reconstructing Kalmyk Buddhist Monasteries through Digital Modeling: An Interview with Simon Daisley from the Khurul Project
Introduction Simon Daisley is an independent researcher of Kalmyk Buddhism and a digital heritage practitioner based in New Zealand. Through…
Your first computed visualization, or, how to use Python to understand the reception of Bukhari and Muslim Hadith collections
There comes a time when using Word or PowerPoint or Excel is not going to be enough to create a…