Marimo Notebooks
In a previous post, I have highlighted the usefulness of notebooks for writing Python code. I mentioned tools like Jupyter…
Tag: Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities Initiatives at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, inaugurated in Alexandria, Egypt in 2002, serves as a symbolic cultural institution reviving the spirit of the…
From Rigid Taxonomies to Networks of Relationships: When the Semantic Web Redesigns Cultural Narratives
Imagine an infinite library, housing thousands of Arabic, Persian and Ottoman manuscripts. Works on medicine, astronomy, poetry, philosophy, and law.…
Products in Local Chronicles: The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Civilization’s 70-Year Quest for a Treasure Trove
2025 marks the 70th anniversary of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Civilization (Zhonghua Nongye Wenming Yanjiuyuan 中華農業文明研究院; hereafter, the Academy)…
Digital Humanities in Motion: When Pop Culture Rewrites Aging
This guest contribution was written by Virgine Borges de Castilho Sacoman, MS to PhD student in Sociology at the University…
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Imagining a Contextual Tech for Indian Languages: A Postcard from Bahu Bhasa 2025
Building on the conversations initiated under the Future of the Commons (overviews of which can be found here and here),…
Why Extracting Hindi Text from PDFs Is So Much Harder Than English (And How You Can Do It)
As a Digital Humanities student working with Hindi-language texts, I expected extracting text from a Hindi PDF to be a…
Teaching Bengali Digital Texts to Anglophone Undergraduates: What Voyant Reveals about the Infrastructural Bias of DH Tools
In designing an introductory Digital Humanities class, I am often faced with the question of how best to incorporate linguistic…
The Olufsen Collection: From 19th-Century Expeditions to Digital Museum Collection – Part 2
This is a guest post by Aizat Ishembieva. This second installment compares the work of Professor Esther Fihl and her…
The Versatility of the Home in Mists – Oversea Edition
The database Home In Mists – Oversea edition 白雲深處人家海外站 is an edition based outside of China of a database by…