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Category: Digitization

Photographing Archival Material at the Cadbury Research Library: Some Reflections
Archiving, DH in General, Digitization, Japanese Studies, Workflow

Photographing Archival Material at the Cadbury Research Library: Some Reflections

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

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

Online Resources for Ancient Mesopotamia?
Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Digitization, Online Resources

Online Resources for Ancient Mesopotamia?

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?

Google Translate with One Click (Mac)
Digitization, Islamic Studies, Software, Workflow

Google Translate with One Click (Mac)

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)

The Importance of Uncertainty: VR Reconstructions of Ancient Buildings
Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Digitization, Visualization

The Importance of Uncertainty: VR Reconstructions of Ancient Buildings

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

Scholarship in 3D: 3D scanning and printing at ASOR 2018
Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Digitization, Visualization

Scholarship in 3D: 3D scanning and printing at ASOR 2018

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

Announcing a Handbook for DH and Manuscript Studies
DH in General, Digitization, Workflow

Announcing a Handbook for DH and Manuscript Studies

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

Proceed with Caution! Identifying Structures using Royal Inscriptions (Part 2)
Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Digitization, Online Resources

Proceed with Caution! Identifying Structures using Royal Inscriptions (Part 2)

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)

The Shrine Database: An Interview with its Creator
Archiving, Digitization, Japanese Studies, Online Resources

The Shrine Database: An Interview with its Creator

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

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