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Category: Indian Studies

The Pote Collection of Islamic Manuscripts: The Highlights of Eton part (II)
Digitization, Indian Studies, Iranian Studies, Islamic Languages, Islamic Studies

The Pote Collection of Islamic Manuscripts: The Highlights of Eton part (II)

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)

The Pote Collection of Islamic Manuscripts: The Highlights of King’s part (I)
Digitization, Indian Studies, Iranian Studies, Islamic Studies

The Pote Collection of Islamic Manuscripts: The Highlights of King’s part (I)

The Pote collection contains many textually useful manuscripts especially in the field of the history of India; however, although most … Continue reading The Pote Collection of Islamic Manuscripts: The Highlights of King’s part (I)

Images of the BUDA: Digital Archives and the Future of Research Using Linked Open Data
Buddhist Studies, DH in General, Digitization, Indian Studies, Online Resources

Images of the BUDA: Digital Archives and the Future of Research Using Linked Open Data

The Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, organizing, and disseminating Buddhist literature based in Boston, … Continue reading Images of the BUDA: Digital Archives and the Future of Research Using Linked Open Data

Fingernail Art (II): Three-dimensional Calligraphy and Drawing in the 19th-Century
Digitization, Indian Studies, Iranian Studies, Islamic Studies, Topics, Visualization

Fingernail Art (II): Three-dimensional Calligraphy and Drawing in the 19th-Century

Part II : Neighbouring Countries and Contemporary artists Abstract Fingernail art is a little known and studied Persian artistic medium, … Continue reading Fingernail Art (II): Three-dimensional Calligraphy and Drawing in the 19th-Century

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

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