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 a guest post by Christopher Francese, Asbury J. Clarke Professor of Classical Studies, Dickinson College francese@dickinson.edu In 2016 … Continue reading The Digitization of a Large Latin-Chinese Dictionary
Learn about Kraken’s segmentation model and the process of training our own custom segmentation models for layout analysis tasks. Continue reading Train Your Own OCR/HTR Models with Kraken, part 2
The term “ancient Silk Roads” conventionally refers to the historical networks of trade routes spanning West, East, Central, and South … Continue reading Exhibiting the Ancient Silk Roads Virtually
How to train custom OCR/HTR models in Kraken Continue reading Train Your Own OCR/HTR Models with Kraken, part 1
The digitization of Georgian-Persian illuminated documents represents an important and urgent cultural and research desideratum. These rare manuscripts remain exceptional, … Continue reading Georgian-Persian Illuminated Historical Documents from K.Kekelidze Georgian National Centre of Manuscripts
Introduction: The READ Workbench and its Potential The READ (‘Research Environment for Ancient Documents’) Workbench, originally designed for interpreting and … Continue reading ‘READ Workbench (part 2): Digital Repatriation, Pedagogy and Transnational Heritage’
In my previous post on how to use the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (NTVMR), I walked through the process … Continue reading A Guide for Using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (Part 2)
Recently, a new project aiming at collecting and publicizing documents and books related to nikkei (descendants of Japanese emigrants) in … Continue reading Sources for Nikkei Documents in Brazil
Part I of this two-part assessment of the Academia Sinica’s bronze inscription research tools examined key features of the ‘Shang … Continue reading Digital Resources for Chinese Bronze Research: The Academia Sinica Collection (Part 2)
OCR of historical printing in Bengali using segmentation and recognition models trained in Kraken from an annotated dataset of Bengali texts published between 1860 and 1940. Continue reading eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 3
The Digital Orientalist 