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.
This is the second part of an interview with Arezou Azad, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian … Continue reading Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 2
This is the first part of an interview with Arezou Azad, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian … Continue reading Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 1
As you might expect, not all rare materials (manuscripts and their fragments) are yet digitized. Sometimes still more surprising (and … Continue reading Flew under the Digital and non-Digital Scholarly Radars: Syriac Manuscripts and Fragments at Yale University (Part 1)
Professor Dr. Rasul Jafarian has significantly contributed to digital humanities during his services as the director of some of the … Continue reading Digital Humanities and Manuscript Archives in Iran
This is a guest post by Ann Marie Davis (The Ohio State University), Katherine Matsuura (Harvard University), and Yukari Sugiyama … Continue reading Visualizing an Online Database for Notable Japanese Collections in North America
Good examples of and projects about the opportunities created by digital humanities in Ottoman Studies are increasing day by day. … Continue reading Re-thinking University Curricula for Ottoman Studies and Digital Humanities
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”
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
This is the second post in an interview of Prof. Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent and Prof. David A. Michelson, who were … Continue reading New Working Group for Linked Manuscript Descriptions, part 2
For the past year, questions of how to decolonize the historical records of North Africa have been in the news, … Continue reading Decolonize North Africa’s Historical Records
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