‘READ Workbench (part 2): Digital Repatriation, Pedagogy and Transnational Heritage’
Introduction: The READ Workbench and its Potential The READ (‘Research Environment for Ancient Documents’) Workbench, originally designed for interpreting and…
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eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 3
OCR of historical printing in Bengali using segmentation and recognition models trained in Kraken from an annotated dataset of Bengali texts published between 1860 and 1940.
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eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 2
In part 1 of this series, I provided a quick introduction to eScriptorium and the workflow associated with it. This…
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Repost of a Roundtable Discussion: ‘Digital Humanities, Digital Communities”
The following online roundtable discussion was part of a School of Culture, History, and Language ‘Flagship’ event organised by Christopher…
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…
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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…
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…
The AyurYog Project: An Interview with Professor Dagmar Wujastyk
This is a guest post by Udita Das. The AyurYog Project concerns with the tangled histories of South Asian yoga,…
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…
A Beginners’ Guide to Digital Resources in Sanskrit
This is a guest post written by Udita Das. A few months back a friend of mine told me about…