Persian Illuminated Historical Documents of Safavid Period from Georgian Depositories
This is a post by Elene Giunashvil, guest contributor for Iranian Studies for 22-23 Georgia’s cultural past, both as a…
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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…
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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…
Writing from right-to-left in a left-to-right digital world
For most beginners’ purposes, specialized DH tools (like Transkribus, Voyant Tools, or any specialized database) are already a major boost…
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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…
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An interview with Professor Sarah Savant about KITAB project, part 2
This is the second part of the interview with Sarah Savant, Professor at the Aga Khan University–Institute for the Study…
An interview with Professor Sarah Savant about KITAB project, part 1
KITAB project is developing a corpus of Arabic texts to which they apply digital methods in such a way that…
Nail and Griffin on Paper: Exploring a Fingernail Calligraphy Album from Twentieth-century Iran
Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes (independent paper and book conservator and researcher, Utrecht, the Netherlands) and Shiva Mihan (Fellow in the School of…
A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic: Part 2
This week we publish the second part of “A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic”…
A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic: Part 1
This week’s guest contribution is by Ishida Yuri, Okayama University, Special-Appointment Assistant Professor, and Shinoda Tomoaki, Tokyo University of Foreign…