From the Land of Braj: A Photographic Database
From the Land of Braj, Centre of Krishna Pilgrimage is an online database developed by SOAS, thanks to funding from…
Category: Indian Studies
Legacy cataloguing and TEI: David Pingree and Wellcome Collection
By Alexandra Eveleigh, Stephanie Cornwell, and Adrian Plau. Wellcome Collection holds one of the world’s most unique manuscript collections. The…
What We Hold and What We Must Pass On: A Review of Digitization of Manuscripts at IGNCA in India
A post by our guest contributor, Shruti Dixit, a Ph.D. candidate in the Divinity School at the University of St.…
The Pote Collection of Islamic Manuscripts: The Highlights of Eton part (II)
The Pote collection of Islamic manuscripts was brought to England in 1790 and was divided between King’s College and Eton…
The Pote Collection of Islamic Manuscripts: The Highlights of King’s part (I)
The Pote collection contains many textually useful manuscripts especially in the field of the history of India; however, although most…
Images of the BUDA: Digital Archives and the Future of Research Using Linked Open Data
The Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, organizing, and disseminating Buddhist literature based in Boston,…
Fingernail Art (II): Three-dimensional Calligraphy and Drawing in the 19th-Century
Part II : Neighbouring Countries and Contemporary artists Abstract Fingernail art is a little known and studied Persian artistic medium,…
Typing in Tamil in contemporary and ancient scripts
Tamil is one of the twenty-two official languages spoken in India and its representation in writing dates back to the…
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Text-Matching at the Canonical Crossroads: An Introduction to BuddhaNexus (Part II)
In my previous post about the text-matching database BuddhaNexus, I corresponded with project co-director Orna Almogi, who described the promise…
Manuscripts, Mapping, and Provenance
The Digital Orientalist has given us many examples of the uses of digital cartography or, more simply, mapping. Ranging from…