A Parallel Treebank of Speeches by Narendra Modi, PM of India
This is a guest post by Erica Biagetti In my first post as a guest contributor to the Digital Orientalist, I…
Category: South Asian Studies
Partition Chronicles: Navigating Punjab’s Historical Repositories
The Partition of Colonial Punjab in 1947 was one of the most significant moments in South Asian and global history.…
Vlogging as a Multimodal Way of Knowing and Acting: Some Reflections from the Trans-Himalayan Context
The Himalayan region has consistently been the subject of various external imaginations. For example, since the publication of James Hilton’s…
The Sanskrit WordNet: a new database for the study of the Sanskrit lexicon
This is a guest post by Erica Biaggetti WordNets are valuable resources in linguistics, offering structured and comprehensive databases that…
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The Digital Cold War and Decolonization: Archives, Methods, and Tools
Introduction Up until a few years ago, the history of the Cold War was dominated by interpretations that focused solely…
eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 3
OCR of historical printing in Bengali using segmentation and recognition models trained in Kraken from an annotated dataset of Bengali texts published between 1860 and 1940.
Ladakh Archaeology: Introduction and Review
In January 2023, Ladakh Archaeology was launched. This is to date the largest database on the heritage of Ladakh, located…
DREAMSEA
This is guest post by Mark Boersma. Recently I came across a website of a project on manuscripts from Southeast…
Podcasting as Digital Storytelling in Research and Outreach
Oh great, yet another podcast! Like many researchers, I find myself listening to more diverse types of academic media in…
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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…