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Category: Indian Studies

Typing in Tamil in contemporary and ancient scripts
Indian Studies, Online Resources, Workflow

Typing in Tamil in contemporary and ancient scripts

Tamil is one of the twenty-two official languages spoken in India and its representation in writing dates back to the … Continue reading Typing in Tamil in contemporary and ancient scripts

Text-Matching at the Canonical Crossroads: An Introduction to BuddhaNexus (Part II)
Buddhist Studies, Chinese Language, DH in General, Indian Studies, Online Resources, Textual Analysis, Visualization

Text-Matching at the Canonical Crossroads: An Introduction to BuddhaNexus (Part II)

In my previous post about the text-matching database BuddhaNexus, I corresponded with project co-director Orna Almogi, who described the promise … Continue reading Text-Matching at the Canonical Crossroads: An Introduction to BuddhaNexus (Part II)

Manuscripts, Mapping, and Provenance
Digital Cartography, Indian Studies, Visualization

Manuscripts, Mapping, and Provenance

The Digital Orientalist has given us many examples of the uses of digital cartography or, more simply, mapping. Ranging from … Continue reading Manuscripts, Mapping, and Provenance

Jaina Prosopography Project and Online Open-Source Database Construction
Indian Studies, Online Resources

Jaina Prosopography Project and Online Open-Source Database Construction

Prosopography, at the most general level, is the collective biography of persons of a particular place or period. However, with … Continue reading Jaina Prosopography Project and Online Open-Source Database Construction

Time and pragmatism in the digital humanities: TEI and Juxta Commons for South Asian manuscript collation
DH in General, Indian Studies, Software, Textual Analysis, Workflow

Time and pragmatism in the digital humanities: TEI and Juxta Commons for South Asian manuscript collation

The best advice I had when starting out with digital humanities came from David Beavan and was simply to only … Continue reading Time and pragmatism in the digital humanities: TEI and Juxta Commons for South Asian manuscript collation

Becoming a PANDiT
Indian Studies, Online Resources

Becoming a PANDiT

This posts introduces PANDiT, aka Prosopographic Database for Indic Texts, a useful tool for any Indologist out there. Continue reading Becoming a PANDiT

Digitizing Indian Music
Digitization, Indian Studies, OCR, Online Resources

Digitizing Indian Music

This article presents the project of digitization of a large amount of handwritten material that is part of the Fondo Daniélou at Cini Foundation (San Giorgio, Venice). Continue reading Digitizing Indian Music

Once upon a Camera…
DH in General, Indian Studies, Visualization

Once upon a Camera…

This article gives a basic introduction to photogrammetry by using the Agisoft Metashape software. Continue reading Once upon a Camera…

Mapping Ancient Indian Urban Spaces
Digital Cartography, Indian Studies, Online Resources, Software, Visualization

Mapping Ancient Indian Urban Spaces

This article deals with GIS in Classical Indian Studies, focusing on the case-study of “Mapping Vijayanagara.” Continue reading Mapping Ancient Indian Urban Spaces

Online Ritual Web Traffic and the Hindu Diaspora
DH in General, Indian Studies, Online Resources

Online Ritual Web Traffic and the Hindu Diaspora

This post was written by guest contributor Zach Chrisman. Chrisman is a master’s student in Religious Studies at the University of Denver … Continue reading Online Ritual Web Traffic and the Hindu Diaspora

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