Digital Humanities and Manuscript Archives in Iran
Professor Dr. Rasul Jafarian has significantly contributed to digital humanities during his services as the director of some of the…
Category: Digitization
Visualizing an Online Database for Notable Japanese Collections in North America
This is a guest post by Ann Marie Davis (The Ohio State University), Katherine Matsuura (Harvard University), and Yukari Sugiyama…
Buddhist StudiesChinese LanguageDH in GeneralDH in PracticeDigitizationJapanese StudiesOnline ResourcesTextual Analysis
Digital Humanities and Buddhist Studies in Japan: An Interview with Kiyonori Nagasaki (1/2)
Continuing our series of interviews with scholars working in Digital Humanities in Japan, this is the first of a two-part…
African LanguagesAfrican StudiesAncient EgyptAncient Near Eastern StudiesCodingCoptic LanguageDH in GeneralDH in PracticeDigitizationEquipmentSoftware
Read and Write Coptic on Your Smartphone: Interview with Mina Makar on Coptic Bible, Dictionary, Keyboard, and Agpeya Apps
Coptic is the last stage of the Egyptian language and is still used at Coptic Christian churches. Coptic uses the…
ArchivingDH in GeneralDH in PracticeDigitizationIslamic LanguagesIslamic StudiesOnline ResourcesOttoman StudiesVisualizationWorkflow
Interviewing Dr Hoffmann-Ruf about “Qalamos: connecting manuscript traditions”
The new portal ‘Qalamos: connecting manuscript traditions’ provides metadata of oriental manuscripts from more than 25 collections in Germany. I…
Exploring Wellcome Collection’s Karshuni Manuscripts
Written by Rosie Maxton. Wellcome Collection comprises close to 1000 Arabic manuscripts, showcasing a vast array of genres, historical periods…
Interviewing Dr. Naomi Appleton about Jātaka Stories
This is a guest post by Udita Das. Jātaka Stories is a free online repository of jātaka tales. Jātakas are…
Just give me a font!
The headache of working with archaic Chinese orthographies Technologically, we scholars of the 21st century are spoiled. We sit at…
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New Working Group for Linked Manuscript Descriptions, part 2
This is the second post in an interview of Prof. Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent and Prof. David A. Michelson, who were…
Decolonize North Africa’s Historical Records
For the past year, questions of how to decolonize the historical records of North Africa have been in the news,…