Practical examples and theoretical reflections on the do's and don'ts of using digital tools for your study and research in African and Asian Studies.
Over the last few years, a collaborative project has been developing between the Sinhala Buddhist organisations the International Centre for … Continue reading Sinhala Manuscripts at Wellcome Collection: Collaborative Practice and Cultural Heritage
This guest post is written by Lara Salha, archivist at Wellcome Collection, and gives us an introduction to her work … Continue reading Dr Sami Ibrahim Haddad – the surgeon and his manuscripts
Written by Rosie Maxton. Wellcome Collection comprises close to 1000 Arabic manuscripts, showcasing a vast array of genres, historical periods … Continue reading Exploring Wellcome Collection’s Karshuni Manuscripts
From the Land of Braj, Centre of Krishna Pilgrimage is an online database developed by SOAS, thanks to funding from … Continue reading From the Land of Braj: A Photographic Database
By Alexandra Eveleigh, Stephanie Cornwell, and Adrian Plau. Wellcome Collection holds one of the world’s most unique manuscript collections. The … Continue reading Legacy cataloguing and TEI: David Pingree and Wellcome Collection
Written by Lara Salha, Harrison Pim, James Gorrie, and Adrian Plau. Wellcome Collection holds a diverse collection of multilingual items, ranging … Continue reading Kitāb or kitaab: improving search and discovery for global languages
The Digital Orientalist has given us many examples of the uses of digital cartography or, more simply, mapping. Ranging from … Continue reading Manuscripts, Mapping, and Provenance
The best advice I had when starting out with digital humanities came from David Beavan and was simply to only … Continue reading Time and pragmatism in the digital humanities: TEI and Juxta Commons for South Asian manuscript collation