Equipment, Hardware, Japanese Studies, Workflow

Returning to Denshi Jisho: The Ongoing Benefits of Electronic Dictionaries

In 2021, I wrote a short piece for the Digital Orientalist entitled “Denshi Jisho: Are they still worth your time?” … Continue reading Returning to Denshi Jisho: The Ongoing Benefits of Electronic Dictionaries

Buddhist Studies, central asia, DH in Practice, Digitization, Equipment, New Post, Online Resources, South Asian Studies

The DiGA Project—Digitization of Gandhāran Artefacts: An Interview with Jessie Pons and Cristiano Moscatelli (Part 1)

In the field of Buddhist art, recent years have seen more and more digitization projects that center around the art … Continue reading The DiGA Project—Digitization of Gandhāran Artefacts: An Interview with Jessie Pons and Cristiano Moscatelli (Part 1)

African Languages, African Studies, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Coding, Coptic Language, DH in General, DH in Practice, Digitization, Equipment, Software

Read and Write Coptic on Your Smartphone: Interview with Mina Makar on Coptic Bible, Dictionary, Keyboard, and Agpeya Apps

Coptic is the last stage of the Egyptian language and is still used at Coptic Christian churches. Coptic uses the … Continue reading Read and Write Coptic on Your Smartphone: Interview with Mina Makar on Coptic Bible, Dictionary, Keyboard, and Agpeya Apps

African Languages, African Studies, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Archiving, Coptic Language, DH in General, DH in Practice, Digitization, Equipment, Events & Conferences, Teaching, Textual Analysis, Visualization, Workflow

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)

Archiving, Digitization, Equipment

How about a copy stand?

When conducting research on documents pertaining to the Ashio Copper Mine Incident at Sano City Museum in late 2020, I … Continue reading How about a copy stand?

Archiving, DH in General, Digitization, Equipment, Hardware, Japanese Studies, OCR

Book and Document Scanning with the CZUR Aura X Pro

I recently purchased a CZUR Aura X Pro to scan documents and books in my office, home, and at libraries … Continue reading Book and Document Scanning with the CZUR Aura X Pro

DH in General, Equipment, Hardware

Varmilo VB87M bluetooth keyboard

Back to mechanical keyboards. If you are a writer and have not tried these out yet, you are missing out! … Continue reading Varmilo VB87M bluetooth keyboard

DH in General, Equipment, Hardware

IBM Model M: the mother of all keyboards

This is one of those geekier posts. Mechanical keyboards. Again. And this time I had the opportunity to test the … Continue reading IBM Model M: the mother of all keyboards

Digitization, Equipment, Software

The future of document scanning: we are not there yet

Evernote’s new automatic document scanner is an interesting look at how we will be able to scan text materials with … Continue reading The future of document scanning: we are not there yet

DH in General, Equipment, Hardware, Software

Reading on a Phone

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