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Category: Coding

Creating a “Launcher” Extension for Google Chrome
Coding, DH in General, Japanese Studies, Online Resources, Workflow

Creating a “Launcher” Extension for Google Chrome

Users of Google Chrome have long been able to customize their browsing experiences by installing extensions; small pieces of software … Continue reading Creating a “Launcher” Extension for Google Chrome

DH Project at Utrecht University: Bridging the Gap
Coding, DH in General, Islamic Studies, Online Resources, Textual Analysis

DH Project at Utrecht University: Bridging the Gap

  At Utrecht University, the project ‘Bridging the Gap: Digital Humanities and the Arabic-Islamic corpus’, seeks to “harness state-of-the art … Continue reading DH Project at Utrecht University: Bridging the Gap

Creating an Online Calculator (2): Algorithms and Code
Coding, Japanese Studies, Online Resources

Creating an Online Calculator (2): Algorithms and Code

By James Harry Morris Previously I uploaded a post about an online calculator that I had created for converting the shakkanhō 尺貫法 … Continue reading Creating an Online Calculator (2): Algorithms and Code

Creating an Online Calculator for the Conversion of Shakkanhō (Japanese) Units
Coding, Japanese Studies, Online Resources

Creating an Online Calculator for the Conversion of Shakkanhō (Japanese) Units

By James Harry Morris Introduction When I was invited to become the editor of the Japan Studies content on Digital … Continue reading Creating an Online Calculator for the Conversion of Shakkanhō (Japanese) Units

Tackling Poetry with Python (2)
Coding, DH in General, Textual Analysis

Tackling Poetry with Python (2)

In a previous post, I described the preliminary work to do automated analysis on poetry. I now describe the actual … Continue reading Tackling Poetry with Python (2)

Review of The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies
Coding, Islamic Studies, Workflow

Review of The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies

The book The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies provides an excellent introduction into DH for students and scholars. … Continue reading Review of The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies

Tackling Poetry with Python
Coding, DH in General, Textual Analysis

Tackling Poetry with Python

Poetry is among the best kind of texts to be manipulated with a programming language. Most of that work lies … Continue reading Tackling Poetry with Python

What to do with “Digital Humanities”?
Coding, DH in General

What to do with “Digital Humanities”?

DH is a buzzword that many are not sure what to do about. It is in general agreed upon, by … Continue reading What to do with “Digital Humanities”?

Deconstructing the Kashf al-ẓunūn with Python, part 1
Coding, Islamic Studies

Deconstructing the Kashf al-ẓunūn with Python, part 1

I am using the programming language called Python to make sense of Ḥajjī Khalīfa’s famous bibliographical work Kashf al-ẓunūn. I had … Continue reading Deconstructing the Kashf al-ẓunūn with Python, part 1

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