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.
KITAB project is developing a corpus of Arabic texts to which they apply digital methods in such a way that … Continue reading An interview with Professor Sarah Savant about KITAB project, part 1
Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes (independent paper and book conservator and researcher, Utrecht, the Netherlands) and Shiva Mihan (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) … Continue reading Nail and Griffin on Paper: Exploring a Fingernail Calligraphy Album from Twentieth-century Iran
This week we publish the second part of “A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic” … Continue reading A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic: Part 2
This week’s guest contribution is by Ishida Yuri, Okayama University, Special-Appointment Assistant Professor, and Shinoda Tomoaki, Tokyo University of Foreign … Continue reading A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic: Part 1
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 (II)
Written by Lara Salha, Harrison Pim, James Gorrie, and Adrian Plau. Wellcome Collection holds a diverse collection of multilingual items, ranging … Continue reading Kitāb or kitaab: improving search and discovery for global languages
There comes a time when using Word or PowerPoint or Excel is not going to be enough to create a … Continue reading Your first computed visualization, or, how to use Python to understand the reception of Bukhari and Muslim Hadith collections
Several months ago a rather interesting blog post was brought to my attention. This was a post by Christopher Rose … Continue reading Automatic Arabic Translation Using Google: A Test
Sometimes it takes days or even weeks to be able to read and decipher a word in manuscripts. This problem, … Continue reading Deciphering Ottoman Turkish Manuscripts with LexiQamus
The state of semi-lockdown in Japan, and with the universities and their libraries all closed, has allowed me some time … Continue reading Some Thoughts on Databases
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