Full-Text Online Arabic Sources: A Preliminary List
A truly epic amount of Arabic books, both classical and modern, have been scanned already. But what is the status…
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The Sony Hack: What Scholars Can Learn From It
Connectivity has been touted as an absolute good. All your data should be available on all your devices, everywhere. However,…
Mapping Digitized Manuscript Collections
Among the first-generation digitization projects in the humanities is disclosing manuscripts. Disclosing those disclosures is a natural follow-up. One way to…
Reading on a Phone
Carrying a smartphone has made my tablet obsolete. Digital reading has two main modes; plain text or PDF. Plain text…
How Important Is Your Monitor?
Next to your keyboard, your monitor is the part of the computer you encounter most often. In fact, many people…
Talking about DO at MELA
On Thursday, November 20, I gave a talk about the Digital Orientalist at the conference of the Middle East Librarians…
Using Lane’s Lexicon
Over at http://laneslexicon.github.io , we can soon find an application that allows for easy access to Lane’s Lexicon. What I find…
Making a Promotional Video
As you may have seen, I made a video that serves as a trailer for my dissertation (see below). In this…
Project Digitize It All: Timed Example
Here is a quick overview of the time involved getting a paper copy of a book into a workable, decent…
The Scholar’s Phone, Fall 2014
I was in the market for a new phone. A ‘smartphone’. Having had my current phone since 2007, I had never…