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Category: Coding

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)

Among Digitized Manuscripts: A Book
Coding, DH in General, Digitization, Using Real Paper

Among Digitized Manuscripts: A Book

For years, I have explored digitized manuscripts on this website. It left me prepared, three years ago, to embark on … Continue reading Among Digitized Manuscripts: A Book

Using Kraken to Train your own OCR Models
Coding, Digitization, Islamic Studies, OCR, Workflow

Using Kraken to Train your own OCR Models

This is a contribution by Christine Roughan of NYU. Connect with her on Twitter @cmroughan Over the summer of 2019, inspired by the promising results in articles like Romanov et al. 2017, I set out to use the … Continue reading Using Kraken to Train your own OCR Models

Making a Basic Textual Analysis program in Python
Coding, DH in General, Textual Analysis, Workflow

Making a Basic Textual Analysis program in Python

Whether we are involved in Japanese Studies or Islamic Studies, Near Eastern Studies or African Studies, we are all likely … Continue reading Making a Basic Textual Analysis program in Python

Historical Storytelling with Twine
Coding, DH in General, Japanese Studies, Online Resources, Teaching

Historical Storytelling with Twine

In the classroom environment, it can be difficult to create engaging materials that allow students to learn about the multi-causal … Continue reading Historical Storytelling with Twine

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