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.
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
Museums and collections of Islamic art around the world have dedicated a substantial part of their efforts and fundings to … Continue reading Uncovering Hidden Histories of Artifacts with Arches Platform: A Case Study of Persian Architectural Fragments
While others have discussed the possibilities in utilizing Transkribus and other HTR resources in research, I want to briefly discuss … Continue reading Transkribus in the Classroom
Learn about Kraken’s segmentation model and the process of training our own custom segmentation models for layout analysis tasks. Continue reading Train Your Own OCR/HTR Models with Kraken, part 2
We emerging scholars have all been there. It was either when applying for a job, or after starting a new … Continue reading Resource for Teaching Asia
P G Sindhi Library is an archive I built to make sense of Sindhi books I found in someone else’s … Continue reading P G Sindhi Library: A Digital Archive for Sindhi Writing Published in Post-Partition India
The script used by the Christian cultures of Ethiopia is ancient, developing from the Sabaean script in the first centuries … Continue reading Current approaches on Automatic Recognition of Ethiopic script
I have tried all the writing programs (well, almost), so you don’t have to. In the course of the last … Continue reading I have tried all the writing programs, so you don’t have to
This post continues my series on using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (NTVMR) for researching and transcribing Manuscripts of … Continue reading A Guide for Using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (Part 3)
Introduction Up until a few years ago, the history of the Cold War was dominated by interpretations that focused solely … Continue reading The Digital Cold War and Decolonization: Archives, Methods, and Tools