Photographing Archival Material at the Cadbury Research Library: Some Reflections
I am indebted to both the Cadbury Research Library at the University of Birmingham and the Church Mission Society for…
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Online Ritual Web Traffic and the Hindu Diaspora
This post was written by guest contributor Zach Chrisman. Chrisman is a master’s student in Religious Studies at the University of Denver…
Among Digitized Manuscripts: A Book
For years, I have explored digitized manuscripts on this website. It left me prepared, three years ago, to embark on…
Using Kraken to Train your own OCR Models
This is a contribution by Christine Roughan of NYU. Connect with her on Twitter @cmroughan Over the summer of 2019, inspired by the promising results in articles like Romanov et al. 2017, I set out to use the…
Why I still choose to publish in print
I am an advocate for digital solutions. This is kind of an obvious statement for those who have been following…
GSM: A Lesson for Beginners, by a Beginner
Composing a text for a website such as this requires a balancing act between the website’s likely readership. Some readers…
Apps for Viewing Historical Japanese Maps
Several years ago, I received an iPad and realizing that I wanted to use it for academic purposes began to…
Gearing up for Garay
In 1961, El Hadji Assane Faye was inspired by listening to a radio speech by the president of newly independent…
Online Resources for Indian Studies
This post gives an overview of some of the cool online resources for Indologists.
Making online interactive maps with Leaflet (Part 2)
In the first part of my post about making maps with Leaflet, I had explained the basics of creating an…