An Introduction to the History of Syriac Digital Humanities
This is the first part of a series of posts by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac. This…
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Making word clouds with Python
If you have no experience with programming, this walkthrough on how to make a word cloud is just for you.…
Web Scraping with Python for Beginners
Introduction Web scraping is a technique that allows us to extract and copy specific pieces of data from a website.…
Keeping up with Coptic
The digital needs for the Coptic script are becoming better served in recent years, with the introduction of a standard…
Review: Among Digitized Manuscripts by L.W.C. van Lit (Leiden: Brill, 2020)
For this post, I will be reviewing the new book Among Digitized Manuscripts by C. van Lit (Leiden: Brill, 2020), authored by…
The Digital Orientalist’s Recap of 2019
The last year was quite eventful for the Digital Orientalist. It saw a large growth in readership, expansion into new…
Japanese Studies and the Digital Humanities: Who to Follow on Twitter in 2020
As many readers will be aware Social Media provides an excellent forum for sharing research with a wider academic and…
Databases and Repositories for the Study of Christian-Muslim Relations in East Asia: A Preliminary List (Part 2)
In the first part of this post, I provided readers with a list of resources for discovering texts and authors…
Cataloging Ethiopian Materials
The prospects for cataloging materials in Ge’ez, Amharic, Tigre, and Tigrinya have greatly improved since the introduction of a system…
Mapping Ancient Indian Urban Spaces
This article deals with GIS in Classical Indian Studies, focusing on the case-study of “Mapping Vijayanagara.”