Does anyone have a PDF of…
It is the number one question of our days. “Does anyone have a PDF of…” What does this question mean? … Continue reading Does anyone have a PDF of…
Author: The Digital Orientalist
Full-Text Online Arabic Sources: A Preliminary List
A truly epic amount of Arabic books, both classical and modern, have been scanned already. But what is the status … Continue reading Full-Text Online Arabic Sources: A Preliminary List
The Sony Hack: What Scholars Can Learn From It
Connectivity has been touted as an absolute good. All your data should be available on all your devices, everywhere. However, … Continue reading The Sony Hack: What Scholars Can Learn From It
Mapping Digitized Manuscript Collections
Among the first-generation digitization projects in the humanities is disclosing manuscripts. Disclosing those disclosures is a natural follow-up. One way to … Continue reading Mapping Digitized Manuscript Collections
Reading on a Phone
Carrying a smartphone has made my tablet obsolete. Digital reading has two main modes; plain text or PDF. Plain text … Continue reading Reading on a Phone
How Important Is Your Monitor?
Next to your keyboard, your monitor is the part of the computer you encounter most often. In fact, many people … Continue reading How Important Is Your Monitor?
Talking about DO at MELA
On Thursday, November 20, I gave a talk about the Digital Orientalist at the conference of the Middle East Librarians … Continue reading Talking about DO at MELA
Using Lane’s Lexicon
Over at http://laneslexicon.github.io , we can soon find an application that allows for easy access to Lane’s Lexicon. What I find … Continue reading Using Lane’s Lexicon
Making a Promotional Video
As you may have seen, I made a video that serves as a trailer for my dissertation (see below). In this … Continue reading Making a Promotional Video
Project Digitize It All: Timed Example
Here is a quick overview of the time involved getting a paper copy of a book into a workable, decent … Continue reading Project Digitize It All: Timed Example
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