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Category: New Post

Digital Humanities in Motion: When Pop Culture Rewrites Aging
DH in General, Korean Studies, New Post, Social Media, Theory

Digital Humanities in Motion: When Pop Culture Rewrites Aging

This guest contribution was written by Virgine Borges de Castilho Sacoman, MS to PhD student in Sociology at the University … Continue reading Digital Humanities in Motion: When Pop Culture Rewrites Aging

Why Extracting Hindi Text from PDFs Is So Much Harder Than English (And How You Can Do It)
DH in Practice, New Post, OCR, South Asian Studies, Workflow

Why Extracting Hindi Text from PDFs Is So Much Harder Than English (And How You Can Do It)

As a Digital Humanities student working with Hindi-language texts, I expected extracting text from a Hindi PDF to be a … Continue reading Why Extracting Hindi Text from PDFs Is So Much Harder Than English (And How You Can Do It)

Teaching Bengali Digital Texts to Anglophone Undergraduates: What Voyant Reveals about the Infrastructural Bias of DH Tools
DH in Practice, New Post, OCR, South Asian Studies, Teaching

Teaching Bengali Digital Texts to Anglophone Undergraduates: What Voyant Reveals about the Infrastructural Bias of DH Tools

In designing an introductory Digital Humanities class, I am often faced with the question of how best to incorporate linguistic … Continue reading Teaching Bengali Digital Texts to Anglophone Undergraduates: What Voyant Reveals about the Infrastructural Bias of DH Tools

The Olufsen Collection: From 19th-Century Expeditions to Digital Museum Collection – Part 2
central asia, New Post

The Olufsen Collection: From 19th-Century Expeditions to Digital Museum Collection – Part 2

This is a guest post by Aizat Ishembieva. This second installment compares the work of Professor Esther Fihl and her … Continue reading The Olufsen Collection: From 19th-Century Expeditions to Digital Museum Collection – Part 2

The Versatility of the Home in Mists – Oversea Edition
Chinese Language, New Post, Online Resources, Sinology

The Versatility of the Home in Mists – Oversea Edition

The database Home In Mists – Oversea edition 白雲深處人家海外站 is an edition based outside of China of a database by … Continue reading The Versatility of the Home in Mists – Oversea Edition

Scripts That Don’t Fit: The Hidden Bias of NLP in South Asian Languages
New Post, South Asian Studies

Scripts That Don’t Fit: The Hidden Bias of NLP in South Asian Languages

This is a guest post by Saniya Irfan. Digital Humanities in South Asia often begins with negotiating invisibility, the invisibility … Continue reading Scripts That Don’t Fit: The Hidden Bias of NLP in South Asian Languages

Syriac AI Manuscripts and Fragments: Reimagining Digitally the Damaged Past
AI, New Post, Syriac Studies

Syriac AI Manuscripts and Fragments: Reimagining Digitally the Damaged Past

The field of Syriac Digital Humanities continues to advance rapidly, moving from basic text recognition (as discussed in my previous … Continue reading Syriac AI Manuscripts and Fragments: Reimagining Digitally the Damaged Past

The Olufsen Collection: From 19th-Century Expeditions to Digital Museum Collection – Part 1
central asia, New Post

The Olufsen Collection: From 19th-Century Expeditions to Digital Museum Collection – Part 1

This is a guest post by Aizat Ishembieva. The National Museum of Denmark houses one of the most significant 19th-century … Continue reading The Olufsen Collection: From 19th-Century Expeditions to Digital Museum Collection – Part 1

The Dunhuang Culture 敦煌文化 Database
Chinese Language, New Post, Online Resources, Sinology

The Dunhuang Culture 敦煌文化 Database

Since the last time I covered Dunhuang-related databases to browse online in 2022, a few things have changed. The International … Continue reading The Dunhuang Culture 敦煌文化 Database

Digital Storytelling in the Digitisation of Japanese Botanical Specimens in RBG, Kew’s Collections
DH in General, Digitization, Japanese Studies, New Post, Visualization

Digital Storytelling in the Digitisation of Japanese Botanical Specimens in RBG, Kew’s Collections

For the past year and a half, I have worked as a digitisation quality assurance and team leader at Royal … Continue reading Digital Storytelling in the Digitisation of Japanese Botanical Specimens in RBG, Kew’s Collections

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