Never Trust Al-Shamila Search Results☝️
In this post our Arabo-Islamic Studies editor Maxim digs deeper into searching full-text Arabic corpora, comparing Shamela with Elkirtasse. He shows us…
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Making and Using a Twitter Bot
By James Harry Morris with thanks to Callum Morris. In August 2018, I developed the Kirishitan Collector Bot, a Twitter Bot…
Encoding the Bassa Vah script of Liberia
The tale of how the Bassa Vah script came to be encoded into the Unicode Standard winds through Syracuse, Germany,…
Announcing a Handbook for DH and Manuscript Studies
Millions of documents have been scanned and stored as images of pages. Now what? For the past 1,5 years I…
Proceed with Caution! Identifying Structures using Royal Inscriptions (Part 2)
I ended my last post with the assertion that inscribed objects are found in the ‘wrong’ building – that is,…
Why Shamila? Arabic Libraries on your Computer
The most famous Arabic digital library (both online and on computer) is al-Shamila. It contains roughly 7260 Arabic books (when this…
The Shrine Database: An Interview with its Creator
By James Harry Morris with thanks to @ShrineWalker and Tomiyama Aki. Those of you who follow me on Twitter will likely be aware…
Notes on the Study of Loma
A script was developed in the 1930’s for the Loma language by Widɔ Zoɓo of Boneketa, Liberia. While it has…
Proceed with Caution! Identifying Structures using Royal Inscriptions (Part 1)
I’m going to preface this post with a note that I am NOT an archaeologist. I have taken archaeology classes,…
DH Project at Utrecht University: Bridging the Gap
At Utrecht University, the project ‘Bridging the Gap: Digital Humanities and the Arabic-Islamic corpus’, seeks to “harness state-of-the art…