Some notes on the usability of the Zotero Reference Manager for Historical Research
This post was written by guest contributor Jasper Bernhofer. Bernhofer received a Bachelor’s Degree in Middle Eastern Studies and Philosophy…
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Cursive Japanese and OCR: Using KuroNet
The Center for Open Data in the Humanities’ KuroNet Kuzushiji Ninshiki Sābisu (KuroNetくずし字認識サービス) launched late last year. KuroNet is a…
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…
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…
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…
Creating a “Launcher” Extension for Google Chrome
Users of Google Chrome have long been able to customize their browsing experiences by installing extensions; small pieces of software…
Google Translate with One Click (Mac)
Yes we all know; Google translator is best described as “quick and dirty”. Nonetheless, we all use it because it…
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…
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…
Review of The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies
The book The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies provides an excellent introduction into DH for students and scholars.…