An Introduction to the Nine Modes Manual Online
Guest piece by Casey Schoenberger. The following is an introduction to a digital humanities project I completed over the past … Continue reading An Introduction to the Nine Modes Manual Online
Category: Digitization
New Working Group for Linked Manuscript Descriptions, part 1
Recently, a new initiative to develop digital tools and create a common Linked Open Data for the study of Middle … Continue reading New Working Group for Linked Manuscript Descriptions, part 1
Shahnama Studies in the Digital Era
Shiva Mihan – Ali Shapouran The Shahnama or Book of Kings, one of the world’s longest epics, is the national epic of … Continue reading Shahnama Studies in the Digital Era
An interview with Professor Sarah Savant about KITAB project, part 2
This is the second part of the interview with Sarah Savant, Professor at the Aga Khan University–Institute for the Study … Continue reading An interview with Professor Sarah Savant about KITAB project, part 2
Shuge: Visual Materials in a Digitizing World
Shuge 書格 is a free, online database of Chinese rare books, which offers a continuously expanding collection of high-quality scans for … Continue reading Shuge: Visual Materials in a Digitizing World
Digital Archiving & Curation – Report from a Session at a recent Digital Humanities Conference in Kyoto KUDH)
By Franziska Naether (Leipzig/Stellenbosch) Franziska Naether (PD Dr. phil habil.) is an Egyptologist, museum curator, and digital humanist with a focus … Continue reading Digital Archiving & Curation – Report from a Session at a recent Digital Humanities Conference in Kyoto KUDH)
A Beginners’ Guide to Digital Resources in Sanskrit
This is a guest post written by Udita Das. A few months back a friend of mine told me about … Continue reading A Beginners’ Guide to Digital Resources in Sanskrit
Decolonize University-Based Databases
Based at MIT’s Aga Khan Documentation Center, Archnet (AKDC@MIT) is an open-access resource focused on architecture, conservation issues, environmental and … Continue reading Decolonize University-Based Databases
From the Land of Braj: A Photographic Database
From the Land of Braj, Centre of Krishna Pilgrimage is an online database developed by SOAS, thanks to funding from … Continue reading From the Land of Braj: A Photographic Database
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for Ottoman Studies
The “Text Encoding Initiative” (TEI) offers the most comprehensive guide to the computerized coding of texts in the humanities field … Continue reading Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for Ottoman Studies