Practical examples and theoretical reflections on the do's and don'ts of using digital tools for your study and research in African, Oriental Studies..
The best advice I had when starting out with digital humanities came from David Beavan and was simply to only … Continue reading Time and pragmatism in the digital humanities: TEI and Juxta Commons for South Asian manuscript collation
SmartHanzi and DDB Access are interesting apps from the same developer which I came across on Twitter a few years … Continue reading An Introduction to SmartHanzi and DDB Access
Recently, I have been experimenting to see how well Google Docs can transcribe and perform OCR on Syriac books in … Continue reading Brief Notes on OCR and the Automated Transcription of Syriac Books
This post was written by guest contributor Bihter Esener. Esener is currently a Freer Visiting Graduate Student Fellow in the … Continue reading Dissertating in the Digital Age: Research and Writing Tools for Organization and Productivity
When we cannot find a digitized version on the internet, we photograph or scan a book or article ourselves. We … Continue reading ScanTailor: Installation Instructions and Impressions
This post was written by guest contributor Jasper Bernhofer. Bernhofer received a Bachelor’s Degree in Middle Eastern Studies and Philosophy … Continue reading Some notes on the usability of the Zotero Reference Manager for Historical Research
The Center for Open Data in the Humanities’ KuroNet Kuzushiji Ninshiki Sābisu (KuroNetくずし字認識サービス) launched late last year. KuroNet is a … Continue reading Cursive Japanese and OCR: Using KuroNet
This article deals with GIS in Classical Indian Studies, focusing on the case-study of “Mapping Vijayanagara.” Continue reading Mapping Ancient Indian Urban Spaces
Several years ago, I received an iPad and realizing that I wanted to use it for academic purposes began to … Continue reading Apps for Viewing Historical Japanese Maps
In recent years, numerous pieces of open-source software for the segmentation and morphological analysis of Japanese text have been developed including … Continue reading Japanese Text Segmentation and Analysis with Web ChaMame
