Returning to Denshi Jisho: The Ongoing Benefits of Electronic Dictionaries
In 2021, I wrote a short piece for the Digital Orientalist entitled “Denshi Jisho: Are they still worth your time?”…
Category: Equipment
Buddhist StudiesCentral Asian StudiesDH in PracticeDigitizationEquipmentNew PostOnline ResourcesSouth Asian Studies
The DiGA Project—Digitization of Gandhāran Artefacts: An Interview with Jessie Pons and Cristiano Moscatelli (Part 1)
In the field of Buddhist art, recent years have seen more and more digitization projects that center around the art…
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…
African LanguagesAfrican StudiesAncient EgyptAncient Near Eastern StudiesArchivingCoptic LanguageDH in GeneralDH in PracticeDigitizationEquipmentEvents & ConferencesTeachingTextual AnalysisVisualizationWorkflow
Digital Archiving & Curation – Report from a Session at a recent Digital Humanities Conference in Kyoto KUDH)
By Franziska Naether (Leipzig/Stellenbosch) Franziska Naether (PD Dr. phil habil.) is an Egyptologist, museum curator, and digital humanist with a focus…
How about a copy stand?
When conducting research on documents pertaining to the Ashio Copper Mine Incident at Sano City Museum in late 2020, I…
Book and Document Scanning with the CZUR Aura X Pro
I recently purchased a CZUR Aura X Pro to scan documents and books in my office, home, and at libraries…
Varmilo VB87M bluetooth keyboard
Back to mechanical keyboards. If you are a writer and have not tried these out yet, you are missing out!…
IBM Model M: the mother of all keyboards
This is one of those geekier posts. Mechanical keyboards. Again. And this time I had the opportunity to test the…
The future of document scanning: we are not there yet
Evernote’s new automatic document scanner is an interesting look at how we will be able to scan text materials with…
Reading on a Phone
Carrying a smartphone has made my tablet obsolete. Digital reading has two main modes; plain text or PDF. Plain text…