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.
State-of-the-art OCR engines use trainable models to perform two consecutive tasks that produce machine-actionable transcriptions. They first segment the position … Continue reading eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 1
The ‘Research Environment for Ancient Documents’ (or ‘READ‘) is an ecosystem of open-source tools and platforms for the creation of … Continue reading READ Workbench (Part 1): An Introduction to a Text and Image Annotation Ecosystem
When it comes to Buddhist studies, the number of online resources can feel very overwhelming – from the thousands of … Continue reading Digital resources for the study of Buddhist Art in Central Asia: a general overview
This is a guest post by Udita Das. The AyurYog Project concerns with the tangled histories of South Asian yoga, … Continue reading The AyurYog Project: An Interview with Professor Dagmar Wujastyk
This is a guest post by Udita Das. Jātaka Stories is a free online repository of jātaka tales. Jātakas are … Continue reading Interviewing Dr. Naomi Appleton about Jātaka Stories
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
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
By Alexandra Eveleigh, Stephanie Cornwell, and Adrian Plau. Wellcome Collection holds one of the world’s most unique manuscript collections. The … Continue reading Legacy cataloguing and TEI: David Pingree and Wellcome Collection
A post by our guest contributor, Shruti Dixit, a Ph.D. candidate in the Divinity School at the University of St. … Continue reading What We Hold and What We Must Pass On: A Review of Digitization of Manuscripts at IGNCA in India
The Pote collection of Islamic manuscripts was brought to England in 1790 and was divided between King’s College and Eton … Continue reading The Pote Collection of Islamic Manuscripts: The Highlights of Eton part (II)
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