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Category: Indian Studies

eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 2
DH in Practice, Digitization, HTR, Indian Studies, Islamic Studies, OCR, Online Resources, Software, South Asian Studies, Workflow

eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 2

In part 1 of this series, I provided a quick introduction to eScriptorium and the workflow associated with it. This … Continue reading eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 2

Repost of a Roundtable Discussion: ‘Digital Humanities, Digital Communities”
DH in General, DH in Practice, Digitization, Events & Conferences, Indian Studies, Online Resources, South Asian Studies, Teaching, Theory

Repost of a Roundtable Discussion: ‘Digital Humanities, Digital Communities”

The following online roundtable discussion was part of a School of Culture, History, and Language ‘Flagship’ event organised by Christopher … Continue reading Repost of a Roundtable Discussion: ‘Digital Humanities, Digital Communities”

eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 1
DH in Practice, Digitization, HTR, Indian Studies, OCR, Online Resources, Software, South Asian Studies, Workflow

eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 1

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

READ Workbench (Part 1): An Introduction to a Text and Image Annotation Ecosystem
Buddhist Studies, DH in Practice, Digitization, Indian Studies, Online Resources, Software, Textual Analysis, Topics

READ Workbench (Part 1): An Introduction to a Text and Image Annotation Ecosystem

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

Digital resources for the study of Buddhist Art in Central Asia: a general overview
Buddhist Studies, Digitization, Indian Studies, Online Resources, Workflow

Digital resources for the study of Buddhist Art in Central Asia: a general overview

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

The AyurYog Project: An Interview with Professor Dagmar Wujastyk
Indian Studies, Online Resources, Teaching

The AyurYog Project: An Interview with Professor Dagmar Wujastyk

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

Interviewing Dr. Naomi Appleton about Jātaka Stories
Buddhist Studies, Digitization, Indian Studies

Interviewing Dr. Naomi Appleton about Jātaka Stories

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

A Beginners’ Guide to Digital Resources in Sanskrit
Buddhist Studies, Digitization, Indian Studies, Online Resources, Software

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

From the Land of Braj: A Photographic Database
Digitization, Indian Studies, Online Resources

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

Legacy cataloguing and TEI: David Pingree and Wellcome Collection
DH in General, DH in Practice, Digitization, Indian Studies, Online Resources, Software, Textual Analysis

Legacy cataloguing and TEI: David Pingree and Wellcome Collection

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

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