Measuring Readability of Texts: Theory and Practice (Part 1)
This is a guest post by Aleksandra Piskunova. Have you ever wondered how readable texts are? What even makes a…
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A Guide for Using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (Part 1)
Greg Paulson has already written a very helpful introduction to the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (NTVMR) as a guest…
The Marega Collection Database: A Review and Introduction
The Digital Orientalist has long published pieces pertaining to the study of the history of Christianity in Japan. In 2021,…
A Twine Journey to Mecca: Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
Building off James Harry Morris’s post on Historical Storytelling with Twine in 2019 in which he presented his experience of…
An alternative to the undergraduate research paper: Online Exhibitions with ArtSteps
The release of a public version of OpenAI’s generative AI platform, Chat GPT, at the end of last year has…
Digital Resources for the Study of Persian Manuscripts
The following resources are some of the main institutions and libraries for the purpose, but this post can be updated…
Nota Bene: Software for Academic Composition
Publishing. It’s one of the most important parts of research in academia. Yet not many programs cater to the specific…
A closer look at a big, classic humanities project
This is a post by DO founder L. W. Cornelis Van Lit Does a research project which produced a large…
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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…
African and Oceanian Objects in French Museums: Mapping as a Tool for Rethinking Heritage and Historicizing Objects
The collections of African objects in French museums remain rather unknown. Yet the holdings of some 200 French museums contain…