The Toyo Bunko Archive: a source of joy and torment
As promised previously, in this post I am leading you in a deep dive into a major digital archive I…
Category: Digitization
eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 1
State-of-the-art OCR engines use trainable models to perform two consecutive tasks that produce machine-actionable transcriptions. They first segment the position…
ArchivingDH in GeneralDH in PracticeDigitizationHTRIranian StudiesIslamic LanguagesIslamic StudiesOnline ResourcesTextual Analysis
Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 2
This is the second part of an interview with Arezou Azad, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian…
New Testament Greek Manuscripts In Your Pocket: The NT Greek MSS iOS App
The H. Milton Haggard Center for New Testament Textual Studies (CNTTS) is involved in several projects in the field of…
ArchivingDH in GeneralDH in PracticeDigitizationHTRIranian StudiesIslamic LanguagesIslamic StudiesOnline ResourcesTextual Analysis
Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 1
This is the first part of an interview with Arezou Azad, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian…
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READ Workbench (Part 1): An Introduction to a Text and Image Annotation Ecosystem
The ‘Research Environment for Ancient Documents’ (or ‘READ‘) is an ecosystem of open-source tools and platforms for the creation of…
Voxel Art in the Classroom
For my first post exploring digital methods in the classroom, I will introduce Voxel Art and how I have utilized…
Digital resources for the study of Buddhist Art in Central Asia: a general overview
When it comes to Buddhist studies, the number of online resources can feel very overwhelming – from the thousands of…
Cracking the Oracle Bones: the Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database (Part 1)
Introduction: In April, the Zhonghua Book Company (中華書局) launched the (subscription-only) Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database 殷墟甲骨文數據庫 (YOD), containing…
Flew under the Digital and non-Digital Scholarly Radars: Syriac Manuscripts and Fragments at Yale University (Part 1)
As you might expect, not all rare materials (manuscripts and their fragments) are yet digitized. Sometimes still more surprising (and…