Digital Humanities and Ottoman Studies: A Review
Witnessing Ottoman Studies’ recent integration of AI is exciting for the field’s development in terms of its inclusion of wider, … Continue reading Digital Humanities and Ottoman Studies: A Review
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Editor’s Digest May 2026: Digital Humanities in General
Introduction This year’s pieces for Digital Humanities in General have covered various aspects of the practice and theory of Digital … Continue reading Editor’s Digest May 2026: Digital Humanities in General
From Coordinates to Connections: Mapping People and Places in Ottoman Turkish Texts
Introduction In my previous work exploring the first volume of Künhü’l-Ahbar, Gelibolulu Mustafa Âlî’s work on history and geography from … Continue reading From Coordinates to Connections: Mapping People and Places in Ottoman Turkish Texts
At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France (3): Bridging Communities and Building the Future
Introduction The first article of this series explored the general landscape of digital studies on Arabic script in France. The … Continue reading At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France (3): Bridging Communities and Building the Future
From Text to Map: A Reproducible Geocoding Pipeline for Ottoman Studies
This paper presents a computational pipeline for working with spatial data in Ottoman Turkish, from extracting place names via named-entity … Continue reading From Text to Map: A Reproducible Geocoding Pipeline for Ottoman Studies
Flourish: Visualizing Ottoman Migration to the United States
This article examines the flow of Ottoman citizens, including Armenians, Jews, Christians, and Muslims, to the United States during the … Continue reading Flourish: Visualizing Ottoman Migration to the United States
M-Classi: A Digital Tool for the Classification of Sciences in Islam and Beyond
Introduction A fundamental question in the history of science from antiquity to the premodern era is how people organized knowledge, … Continue reading M-Classi: A Digital Tool for the Classification of Sciences in Islam and Beyond
Exploring the (Digital) World of Ottoman Turkish Texts: The Digital Ottoman Corpora
It is fascinating to see how Ottoman Turkish texts are transcribed with the help of artificial intelligence (AI)-operated tools, such as Handwritten … Continue reading Exploring the (Digital) World of Ottoman Turkish Texts: The Digital Ottoman Corpora
Video Games and the Humanities: A Call for Scholarly Games
Last spring I wrote a post on why video games should be considered valued tools for teaching non-Western narratives of … Continue reading Video Games and the Humanities: A Call for Scholarly Games
Notes from the Field: Digital Humanities at #DAVO2023
The 29th International Congress of Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient (DAVO) took place in cooperation with the “Turkologentag 2023 — Fourth … Continue reading Notes from the Field: Digital Humanities at #DAVO2023