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The Digital Orientalist’s Recap of 2019
DH in General, Housekeeping

The Digital Orientalist’s Recap of 2019

The last year was quite eventful for the Digital Orientalist. It saw a large growth in readership, expansion into new … Continue reading The Digital Orientalist’s Recap of 2019

Online Ritual Web Traffic and the Hindu Diaspora
DH in General, Indian Studies, Online Resources

Online Ritual Web Traffic and the Hindu Diaspora

This post was written by guest contributor Zach Chrisman. Chrisman is a master’s student in Religious Studies at the University of Denver … Continue reading Online Ritual Web Traffic and the Hindu Diaspora

Using Kraken to Train your own OCR Models
Coding, Digitization, Islamic Studies, OCR, Workflow

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 … Continue reading Using Kraken to Train your own OCR Models

Marching Onwards: The Digital Orientalist in the New Academic Year
Housekeeping

Marching Onwards: The Digital Orientalist in the New Academic Year

The new academic year is about to begin and as always the Digital Orientalist will return to a regular, weekly … Continue reading Marching Onwards: The Digital Orientalist in the New Academic Year

Open Call for Editors
Housekeeping

Open Call for Editors

The Digital Orientalist is seeking to expand and as such we are eagerly looking for several new editors for the new … Continue reading Open Call for Editors

Have a Great Summer
Housekeeping

Have a Great Summer

The Digital Orientalist will go into summer recess for July and August. Still need to scratch your DH itch? You … Continue reading Have a Great Summer

On books and electricity
Using Real Paper

On books and electricity

This guest-post comes from Louise Gallorini (American University of Beirut) and reflects on the value of holding an actual, physical, … Continue reading On books and electricity

Announcing a Handbook for DH and Manuscript Studies
DH in General, Digitization, Workflow

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 … Continue reading Announcing a Handbook for DH and Manuscript Studies

A new year, a new team
Housekeeping

A new year, a new team

This year, The Digital Orientalist will come to life as it never has done before. It will no longer be … Continue reading A new year, a new team

Social Media Manager Needed!
Housekeeping

Social Media Manager Needed!

Are you good with social media and do you know a fair few things about Digital Humanities? Or are you … Continue reading Social Media Manager Needed!

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