The Digital Syriac Corpus: An Interview with Prof. James E. Walters
In addition to the contributions of the Beth Mardutho Institute to the world of Syriac Digital Humanities (which I have…
Category: Textual Analysis
Fingernail Art (I): Three-dimensional Calligraphy and Drawing in the 19th-Century
Part I : Iran Abstract Fingernail art is a little known and studied Persian artistic medium, which was used in…
Digitized Hebrew and Greek Manuscripts: Access and Issues
Biblical work obviously primarily relies on working with “the text.” However, as anyone involved in biblical studies knows, there really…
Text-Matching at the Canonical Crossroads: An Introduction to BuddhaNexus (Part I)
BuddhaNexus is a text-matching database with visualization capabilities that draws its data from Buddhist literary corpora in Pāli, Sanskrit, Tibetan,…
Trustworthy, Freely Available Primary Sources for Biblical Studies
Though laity and scholars of other disciplines may not know them, most scholars involved in biblical studies will probably be…
Time and pragmatism in the digital humanities: TEI and Juxta Commons for South Asian manuscript collation
The best advice I had when starting out with digital humanities came from David Beavan and was simply to only…
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.…
Making a Basic Textual Analysis program in Python
Whether we are involved in Japanese Studies or Islamic Studies, Near Eastern Studies or African Studies, we are all likely…
Japanese Text Segmentation and Analysis with Web ChaMame
In recent years, numerous pieces of open-source software for the segmentation and morphological analysis of Japanese text have been developed including…
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…