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Category: Coding

<strong>An interview with Professor Sarah Savant about KITAB project, part 2</strong>
Coding, DH in General, DH in Practice, Digitization, Islamic Languages, Islamic Studies, Online Resources, Textual Analysis, Visualization, Workflow

An interview with Professor Sarah Savant about KITAB project, part 2

This is the second part of the interview with Sarah Savant, Professor at the Aga Khan University–Institute for the Study … Continue reading An interview with Professor Sarah Savant about KITAB project, part 2

Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for Ottoman Studies
Archiving, Coding, DH in General, DH in Practice, Digitization, Ottoman Studies, Textual Analysis

Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for Ottoman Studies

The “Text Encoding Initiative” (TEI) offers the most comprehensive guide to the computerized coding of texts in the humanities field … Continue reading Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for Ottoman Studies

Basic Python for Japanese Studies: Using fugashi for Text Segmentation
Coding, Japanese Studies

Basic Python for Japanese Studies: Using fugashi for Text Segmentation

Look at the following Japanese sentence from Uchimura Kanzō’s 内村鑑三 Denmarukukoku no hanashi デンマルク国の話 (1911): 今日は少しこの世のことについてお話しいたそうと欲(おも)います。 Full text accessible here. … Continue reading Basic Python for Japanese Studies: Using fugashi for Text Segmentation

Defining word boundaries for Modern and Classical Chinese
Chinese Language, Coding, Online Resources, Sinology, Software, Textual Analysis

Defining word boundaries for Modern and Classical Chinese

Basic corpus analysis is an amazing way to start exploring digital humanities. What could be easier? One just needs to … Continue reading Defining word boundaries for Modern and Classical Chinese

Turning a Zotero bibliography into an online, browsable catalog
Coding, Online Resources, Workflow

Turning a Zotero bibliography into an online, browsable catalog

You can turn any collection of books and articles from Zotero into a website that is easy to search, accessible … Continue reading Turning a Zotero bibliography into an online, browsable catalog

Some thoughts on regular expressions
Coding, DH in General, Online Resources, Sinology

Some thoughts on regular expressions

What are regular expressions and why use them? Those who are interested in the digital humanities or corpus linguistics are … Continue reading Some thoughts on regular expressions

The Syriac Digital Humanities: An Interview with George A. Kiraz, Part 1
Coding, Syriac Studies

The Syriac Digital Humanities: An Interview with George A. Kiraz, Part 1

This is the second part of a series of posts by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac, based on … Continue reading The Syriac Digital Humanities: An Interview with George A. Kiraz, Part 1

Making word clouds with Python
Coding, DH in General

Making word clouds with Python

If you have no experience with programming, this walkthrough on how to make a word cloud is just for you. … Continue reading Making word clouds with Python

Web Scraping with Python for Beginners
Coding, DH in General, Japanese Studies, Textual Analysis

Web Scraping with Python for Beginners

Introduction Web scraping is a technique that allows us to extract and copy specific pieces of data from a website. … Continue reading Web Scraping with Python for Beginners

Review: Among Digitized Manuscripts by L.W.C. van Lit (Leiden: Brill, 2020)
Coding, DH in General, Digitization, Islamic Studies, Online Resources

Review: Among Digitized Manuscripts by L.W.C. van Lit (Leiden: Brill, 2020)

For this post, I will be reviewing the new book Among Digitized Manuscripts by C. van Lit (Leiden: Brill, 2020), authored by … Continue reading Review: Among Digitized Manuscripts by L.W.C. van Lit (Leiden: Brill, 2020)

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