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.
Among the first-generation digitization projects in the humanities is disclosing manuscripts. Disclosing those disclosures is a natural follow-up. One way to … Continue reading Mapping Digitized Manuscript Collections
Carrying a smartphone has made my tablet obsolete. Digital reading has two main modes; plain text or PDF. Plain text … Continue reading Reading on a Phone
Next to your keyboard, your monitor is the part of the computer you encounter most often. In fact, many people … Continue reading How Important Is Your Monitor?
On Thursday, November 20, I gave a talk about the Digital Orientalist at the conference of the Middle East Librarians … Continue reading Talking about DO at MELA
Here is a quick overview of the time involved getting a paper copy of a book into a workable, decent … Continue reading Project Digitize It All: Timed Example
I was in the market for a new phone. A ‘smartphone’. Having had my current phone since 2007, I had never … Continue reading The Scholar’s Phone, Fall 2014
Click here to see in five minutes how I create fully searchable black and white PDFs from photos. Such files … Continue reading Project Digitize It All: Post-Production Editing (Video)
For digitizing a couple of dozen books at home, fast, I decided to use a digital camera. In this post I detail exactly … Continue reading Project Digitize It All: Using a Digital Camera
A while ago I announced the start of a digitization project for my personal collection. At this point, the project is … Continue reading Project Digitize It All: The Aftermath
The art of writing e-mails is, I think, little understood. As part of my strategy to offer reflections on exactly … Continue reading How to write e-mails
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