Buddhist Studies, DH in General, Digitization, OCR, Online Resources, Uncategorized

The Toyo Bunko Archive: a source of joy and torment

As promised previously, in this post I am leading you in a deep dive into a major digital archive I … Continue reading The Toyo Bunko Archive: a source of joy and torment

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

Archiving, DH in General, DH in Practice, Digitization, HTR, Iranian Studies, Islamic Languages, Islamic Studies, Online Resources, Textual Analysis

Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 2

This is the second part of an interview with Arezou Azad, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian … Continue reading Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 2

Apps, Biblical Studies, Digitization, Online Resources, Software

New Testament Greek Manuscripts In Your Pocket: The NT Greek MSS iOS App

The H. Milton Haggard Center for New Testament Textual Studies (CNTTS) is involved in several projects in the field of … Continue reading New Testament Greek Manuscripts In Your Pocket: The NT Greek MSS iOS App

<strong>Interview with Arezou Azad on the </strong><a href="https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/home#/"><strong>Invisible East</strong></a><strong> Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 1</strong>

Archiving, DH in General, DH in Practice, Digitization, HTR, Iranian Studies, Islamic Languages, Islamic Studies, Online Resources, Textual Analysis

Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 1

This is the first part of an interview with Arezou Azad, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian … Continue reading Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 1

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

DH in Practice, Digitization, Online Resources, Ottoman Studies, Software, Teaching, Visualization

Voxel Art in the Classroom

For my first post exploring digital methods in the classroom, I will introduce Voxel Art and how I have utilized … Continue reading Voxel Art in the Classroom

Chinese Language, DH in Practice, Online Resources

Navigating the Dunhuang Manuscripts Databases

The Mogao Caves nearby Dunhuang were one of the most exceptional discoveries of the 20th century. Their textual, artistic and … Continue reading Navigating the Dunhuang Manuscripts Databases

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

Chinese Language, DH in General, DH in Practice, Digitization, Online Resources, Sinology, Textual Analysis

Cracking the Oracle Bones: the Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database (Part 1)

Introduction: In April, the Zhonghua Book Company (中華書局) launched the (subscription-only) Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database 殷墟甲骨文數據庫 (YOD), containing … Continue reading Cracking the Oracle Bones: the Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database (Part 1)