Brill Publishers to offer print on demand

Brill has announced it will offer print-on-demand paperbacks for those books that you can access digitally through your institution. In … Continue reading Brill Publishers to offer print on demand

Details of a scan on a standard printer

Machine: Xerox Workcentre 5665 Contrast & Brightness to high. File size to small. Format to 8,5 x 11″ (scans up … Continue reading Details of a scan on a standard printer

Despite how nice and shiny your computer is, no matter how much money you have spent on it, it will … Continue reading Hardware is like a disobedient slave: 10 reasons to back-up your files

Without data, no archive. We will look at two different categorizations in this post. The nature of files, and the … Continue reading How to build an archive (2): different data

Brill, the publishing house from Leiden, held a webinar to inform people about their online products specific to Islamic Studies … Continue reading Webinar on brillonline Islamic Studies resources

Mechanical keyboards are of the old-fashioned type; looks like a brick and makes a lot of sound. Because each … Continue reading Mechanical keyboards (1)

The University of Leiden is celebrating 400 years of Arabic Studies. As part of their celebrations, the invitation below was … Continue reading When even the experts fail

Today I had the pleasure of trying out the Zeutsel OS 12000. The Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies … Continue reading Using the Zeutsel OS 12000

We have arrived at a point in time where it is relatively easy to establish your very own digital archive, … Continue reading How to build an archive (1)