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Category: Islamic Languages

Interviewing Dr Hoffmann-Ruf about “Qalamos: connecting manuscript traditions”
Archiving, DH in General, DH in Practice, Digitization, Islamic Languages, Islamic Studies, Online Resources, Ottoman Studies, Visualization, Workflow

Interviewing Dr Hoffmann-Ruf about “Qalamos: connecting manuscript traditions”

The new portal ‘Qalamos: connecting manuscript traditions’ provides metadata of oriental manuscripts from more than 25 collections in Germany. I … Continue reading Interviewing Dr Hoffmann-Ruf about “Qalamos: connecting manuscript traditions”

<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

An interview with Professor Sarah Savant about KITAB project, part 1
DH in Practice, Islamic Languages, Islamic Studies, Online Resources, Textual Analysis

An interview with Professor Sarah Savant about KITAB project, part 1

KITAB project is developing a corpus of Arabic texts to which they apply digital methods in such a way that … Continue reading An interview with Professor Sarah Savant about KITAB project, part 1

Nail and Griffin on Paper: Exploring a Fingernail Calligraphy Album from Twentieth-century Iran
Iranian Studies, Islamic Languages, Islamic Studies, Online Resources

Nail and Griffin on Paper: Exploring a Fingernail Calligraphy Album from Twentieth-century Iran

Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes (independent paper and book conservator and researcher, Utrecht, the Netherlands) and Shiva Mihan (Fellow in the School of … Continue reading Nail and Griffin on Paper: Exploring a Fingernail Calligraphy Album from Twentieth-century Iran

A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic: Part 2
Islamic Languages, Islamic Studies, OCR

A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic: Part 2

This week we publish the second part of “A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic” … Continue reading A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic: Part 2

A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic: Part 1
Islamic Languages, Islamic Studies, OCR

A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic: Part 1

This week’s guest contribution is by Ishida Yuri, Okayama University, Special-Appointment Assistant Professor, and Shinoda Tomoaki, Tokyo University of Foreign … Continue reading A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic: Part 1

The Pote Collection of Islamic Manuscripts: The Highlights of Eton part (II)
Digitization, Indian Studies, Iranian Studies, Islamic Languages, Islamic Studies

The Pote Collection of Islamic Manuscripts: The Highlights of Eton part (II)

The Pote collection of Islamic manuscripts was brought to England in 1790 and was divided between King’s College and Eton … Continue reading The Pote Collection of Islamic Manuscripts: The Highlights of Eton part (II)

Kitāb or kitaab: improving search and discovery for global languages
DH in General, DH in Practice, Islamic Languages, Online Resources, Software

Kitāb or kitaab: improving search and discovery for global languages

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

Your first computed visualization, or, how to use Python to understand the reception of Bukhari and Muslim Hadith collections
DH in Practice, Islamic Languages, Visualization

Your first computed visualization, or, how to use Python to understand the reception of Bukhari and Muslim Hadith collections

There comes a time when using Word or PowerPoint or Excel is not going to be enough to create a … Continue reading Your first computed visualization, or, how to use Python to understand the reception of Bukhari and Muslim Hadith collections

Automatic Arabic Translation Using Google: A Test
Digitization, Islamic Languages, Islamic Studies, OCR, Online Resources

Automatic Arabic Translation Using Google: A Test

Several months ago a rather interesting blog post was brought to my attention. This was a post by Christopher Rose … Continue reading Automatic Arabic Translation Using Google: A Test

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