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Category: Software

Defining word boundaries for Modern and Classical Chinese
Chinese Language, Coding, Online Resources, Sinology, Software, Textual Analysis

Defining word boundaries for Modern and Classical Chinese

Basic corpus analysis is an amazing way to start exploring digital humanities. What could be easier? One just needs to … Continue reading Defining word boundaries for Modern and Classical Chinese

Minna de honkoku: An Overview and Reflection
Japanese Studies, OCR, Online Resources, Software, Workflow

Minna de honkoku: An Overview and Reflection

In a piece that I wrote for the Digital Orientalist last year, I compiled a list of digital resources for … Continue reading Minna de honkoku: An Overview and Reflection

Social Scientific Applications of Historical GIS, Part 2: Linking and Visualizing Population Data in ArcGIS
DH in General, Digital Cartography, Islamic Studies, Ottoman Studies, Software, Visualization

Social Scientific Applications of Historical GIS, Part 2: Linking and Visualizing Population Data in ArcGIS

This post has been contributed by Emre Amasyali. Information about the author is included at the end of the post. … Continue reading Social Scientific Applications of Historical GIS, Part 2: Linking and Visualizing Population Data in ArcGIS

Time and pragmatism in the digital humanities: TEI and Juxta Commons for South Asian manuscript collation
DH in General, Indian Studies, Software, Textual Analysis, Workflow

Time and pragmatism in the digital humanities: TEI and Juxta Commons for South Asian manuscript collation

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

An Introduction to SmartHanzi and DDB Access
Chinese Language, Sinology, Software

An Introduction to SmartHanzi and DDB Access

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

Brief Notes on OCR and the Automated Transcription of Syriac Books
Digitization, OCR, Software, Syriac Studies, Workflow

Brief Notes on OCR and the Automated Transcription of Syriac Books

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

Dissertating in the Digital Age: Research and Writing Tools for Organization and Productivity
DH in General, Software, Workflow

Dissertating in the Digital Age: Research and Writing Tools for Organization and Productivity

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

ScanTailor: Installation Instructions and Impressions
Digitization, OCR, Software, Workflow

ScanTailor: Installation Instructions and Impressions

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

Some notes on the usability of the Zotero Reference Manager for Historical Research
DH in General, Islamic Languages, Islamic Studies, Software, Workflow

Some notes on the usability of the Zotero Reference Manager for Historical Research

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

Cursive Japanese and OCR: Using KuroNet
Japanese Studies, OCR, Online Resources, Software, Workflow

Cursive Japanese and OCR: Using KuroNet

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

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