Digital Humanities and Ottoman Studies: A Review
Witnessing Ottoman Studies’ recent integration of AI is exciting for the field’s development in terms of its inclusion of wider,…
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Interview with Prof. David Michelson: From Syriaca.org to the British Library and Beyond (2)
This post is the second part of a conversation between Ephrem A. Ishac and David Michaelson on the state of…
Overview of NDL Kotenseki OCR: The Key to Early Modern Japanese Archives?
This article was written by guest contributor Xia-Kang Ziyi (Kyushu University). The author bio is below. One of the biggest…
Editor’s Digest February 2026: Middle Eastern Studies
In my first Editor’s Digest, I summarised publications in The Digital Orientalist from the Middle Eastern Studies team between September…
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An Overview of Digital Tools and Resources for Central and South Asian Studies Reviewed by The DO Members
This overview is inspired by Maddalena Poli’s recent post, which (re-)introduces East Asian Studies resources featured in The DO. Since…
Syriac AI Manuscripts and Fragments: Reimagining Digitally the Damaged Past
The field of Syriac Digital Humanities continues to advance rapidly, moving from basic text recognition (as discussed in my previous…
At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France (2) : A Brief History of Handwritten Arabic Text Recognition in France
Introduction The first article of this series explored recent advances in the digital study of Arabic script in France in…
Editor’s Digest March 2025: Central and South Asian Studies 1
It has been almost a year since my last Editor’s Digest and in that time there have been a few…
At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France
As Dominique Stutzmann points out in an article for the renowned French media outlet L’Histoire in 2017, paleography has undergone…
Train Your Own OCR/HTR Models with Kraken, part 2
Learn about Kraken’s segmentation model and the process of training our own custom segmentation models for layout analysis tasks.