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.
Greg Paulson has already written a very helpful introduction to the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (NTVMR) as a guest … Continue reading A Guide for Using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (Part 1)
Building off James Harry Morris’s post on Historical Storytelling with Twine in 2019 in which he presented his experience of … Continue reading A Twine Journey to Mecca: Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
The release of a public version of OpenAI’s generative AI platform, Chat GPT, at the end of last year has … Continue reading An alternative to the undergraduate research paper: Online Exhibitions with ArtSteps
Publishing. It’s one of the most important parts of research in academia. Yet not many programs cater to the specific … Continue reading Nota Bene: Software for Academic Composition
In part 1 of this series, I provided a quick introduction to eScriptorium and the workflow associated with it. This … Continue reading eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 2
(Part 2) Although we initially thought that the Ethiopian community would find something to satisfy its curiosity, it was clear … Continue reading How to build a community of collaborative transcription? Feed-back from an on-going project
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
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
(Part 1) For my first post here on African studies and the use of digital tools, I’ll talk about my … Continue reading How to build a community of collaborative transcription? Feed-back from an on-going project
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
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