How to build a community of collaborative transcription? Feed-back from an on-going project
(Part 2) Although we initially thought that the Ethiopian community would find something to satisfy its curiosity, it was clear…
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eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 1
State-of-the-art OCR engines use trainable models to perform two consecutive tasks that produce machine-actionable transcriptions. They first segment the position…
Digital resources for the study of Buddhist Art in Central Asia: a general overview
When it comes to Buddhist studies, the number of online resources can feel very overwhelming – from the thousands of…
Infrastructures. The Digital Orientalist’s 2022 online conference.
The following is the schedule of the Digital Orientalist’s 2022 Zoom conference “Infrastructures.” You can find titles and abstracts here;…
Streamlining Your Academic Digital Workflow #2: Taking Networked Notes with RoamResearch
A while ago, I wrote a piece arguing that we, as researchers in the humanities, need a better system to…
Refine Your Search Engine Results (for Chinese Language Users)
Search engine is perhaps one of the most frequently used tools in modern digital life, revealing whatever information that you…
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Interviewing Dr Hoffmann-Ruf about “Qalamos: connecting manuscript traditions”
The new portal ‘Qalamos: connecting manuscript traditions’ provides metadata of oriental manuscripts from more than 25 collections in Germany. I…
Just give me a font!
The headache of working with archaic Chinese orthographies Technologically, we scholars of the 21st century are spoiled. We sit at…
Streamlining Your Academic Digital Workflow #1: Reading and Annotating with LiquidText
A while ago, I wrote a piece arguing that we, as researchers in the humanities, need a better system to…
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An interview with Professor Sarah Savant about KITAB project, part 2
This is the second part of the interview with Sarah Savant, Professor at the Aga Khan University–Institute for the Study…