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.
I am indebted to both the Cadbury Research Library at the University of Birmingham and the Church Mission Society for … Continue reading Photographing Archival Material at the Cadbury Research Library: Some Reflections
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
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
There has been a big push in recent years to make more academic research and resources openly-available. This is fantastic … Continue reading Online Resources for Ancient Mesopotamia?
Yes we all know; Google translator is best described as “quick and dirty”. Nonetheless, we all use it because it … Continue reading Google Translate with One Click (Mac)
John Sigmier, Ph.D. student at Pennsylvania University, gives us an insight into an ongoing project to display 3D models of … Continue reading The Importance of Uncertainty: VR Reconstructions of Ancient Buildings
I recently attended the 2018 ASOR conference (one of the main conferences for my field in the United States), and … Continue reading Scholarship in 3D: 3D scanning and printing at ASOR 2018
Millions of documents have been scanned and stored as images of pages. Now what? For the past 1,5 years I … Continue reading Announcing a Handbook for DH and Manuscript Studies
I ended my last post with the assertion that inscribed objects are found in the ‘wrong’ building – that is, … Continue reading Proceed with Caution! Identifying Structures using Royal Inscriptions (Part 2)
By James Harry Morris with thanks to @ShrineWalker and Tomiyama Aki. Those of you who follow me on Twitter will likely be aware … Continue reading The Shrine Database: An Interview with its Creator
The Digital Orientalist 