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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)