An Ivorian innovation: the Bété script
I write this in memory of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, who called himself “Cheikh Nadro”, or “he who does not forget”. … Continue reading An Ivorian innovation: the Bété script
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Making online interactive maps with Leaflet (Part 1)
If you study or teach humanities and social sciences and are interested in digital tools, you have probably heard of … Continue reading Making online interactive maps with Leaflet (Part 1)
Beyond “Laures Kirishitan Bunko”: Digital Repositories for Studying 16th and 17th Century Japanese Christianity
By James Harry Morris Kirishitan (J. 吉利支丹/切支丹/キリシタン) were 16th and 17th Century, Japanese Roman Catholics introduced to Christianity by the … Continue reading Beyond “Laures Kirishitan Bunko”: Digital Repositories for Studying 16th and 17th Century Japanese Christianity
Ah, Foumban…
My memories of visiting Foumban, Cameroon in 2006 are still fairly vivid after a twelve-year absence. The palace with a … Continue reading Ah, Foumban…
Scholarship in 3D: 3D scanning and printing at ASOR 2018
I recently attended the 2018 ASOR conference (one of the main conferences for my field in the United States), and … Continue reading Scholarship in 3D: 3D scanning and printing at ASOR 2018
Never Trust Al-Shamila Search Results☝️
In this post our Arabo-Islamic Studies editor Maxim digs deeper into searching full-text Arabic corpora, comparing Shamela with Elkirtasse. He shows us … Continue reading Never Trust Al-Shamila Search Results☝️
Making and Using a Twitter Bot
By James Harry Morris with thanks to Callum Morris. In August 2018, I developed the Kirishitan Collector Bot, a Twitter Bot … Continue reading Making and Using a Twitter Bot
Encoding the Bassa Vah script of Liberia
The tale of how the Bassa Vah script came to be encoded into the Unicode Standard winds through Syracuse, Germany, … Continue reading Encoding the Bassa Vah script of Liberia
Announcing a Handbook for DH and Manuscript Studies
Millions of documents have been scanned and stored as images of pages. Now what? For the past 1,5 years I … Continue reading Announcing a Handbook for DH and Manuscript Studies
Proceed with Caution! Identifying Structures using Royal Inscriptions (Part 2)
I ended my last post with the assertion that inscribed objects are found in the ‘wrong’ building – that is, … Continue reading Proceed with Caution! Identifying Structures using Royal Inscriptions (Part 2)
The Digital Orientalist 