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…
Category: Digitization
Using Kraken to Train your own OCR Models
This is a contribution by Christine Roughan of NYU. Connect with her on Twitter @cmroughan Over the summer of 2019, inspired by the promising results in articles like Romanov et al. 2017, I set out to use the…
Online Resources for Ancient Mesopotamia?
There has been a big push in recent years to make more academic research and resources openly-available. This is fantastic…
Google Translate with One Click (Mac)
Yes we all know; Google translator is best described as “quick and dirty”. Nonetheless, we all use it because it…
The Importance of Uncertainty: VR Reconstructions of Ancient Buildings
John Sigmier, Ph.D. student at Pennsylvania University, gives us an insight into an ongoing project to display 3D models of…
Scholarship in 3D: 3D scanning and printing at ASOR 2018
I recently attended the 2018 ASOR conference (one of the main conferences for my field in the United States), and…
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…
Proceed with Caution! Identifying Structures using Royal Inscriptions (Part 2)
I ended my last post with the assertion that inscribed objects are found in the ‘wrong’ building – that is,…
The Shrine Database: An Interview with its Creator
By James Harry Morris with thanks to @ShrineWalker and Tomiyama Aki. Those of you who follow me on Twitter will likely be aware…
Proceed with Caution! Identifying Structures using Royal Inscriptions (Part 1)
I’m going to preface this post with a note that I am NOT an archaeologist. I have taken archaeology classes,…