Buddhist Studies, DH in Practice, HTR, Software, Tibetan Studies

Transkribus in Practice: Abbreviations

In my last article, I wrote about my experiments to improve the accuracy of a Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) model … Continue reading Transkribus in Practice: Abbreviations

<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, HTR, Software, Tibetan Studies

Transkribus in Practice: Improving CER

Since joining the ERC-funded project, The Dawn of Tibetan Buddhist Scholasticism (11th-13th C.)(TibSchol),1 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in … Continue reading Transkribus in Practice: Improving CER

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

Ancient Near Eastern Studies, DH in General, DH in Practice, Events & Conferences

Notes from the Field: Digital Humanities at #DOT2022

Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft is the oldest association of German Orientalists, with most members’ research in the fields of philology and … Continue reading Notes from the Field: Digital Humanities at #DOT2022

DH in Practice, Sinology, Teaching

3D technology in the Chinese history classroom: Restoring material metadata for primary sources

In 2012, the Smithsonian Institution started its experiment of turning museum collections into 3D models (Terdiman 2022). Ten years later, … Continue reading 3D technology in the Chinese history classroom: Restoring material metadata for primary sources

DH in General, DH in Practice

The Art of Notetaking

For quite a few years, digital creators have invented and shaped many note-taking apps. Some of my colleagues touched already … Continue reading The Art of Notetaking

Japanese Studies

A Beginner’s Guide to Inputting Historical Kana: Installing a Font for “Hentaigana”

There are several ways to render historical kana (commonly known as variant kana or hentaigana 変体仮名) in our writing or … Continue reading A Beginner’s Guide to Inputting Historical Kana: Installing a Font for “Hentaigana”

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