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.
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
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
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
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
This is the second part of our interview with Professor Kiyonori Nagasaki (twitter @knagasaki), Senior Fellow at the International Institute … Continue reading Digital Humanities and Buddhist Studies in Japan: An Interview with Kiyonori Nagasaki (2/2)
For most beginners’ purposes, specialized DH tools (like Transkribus, Voyant Tools, or any specialized database) are already a major boost … Continue reading Writing from right-to-left in a left-to-right digital world
Most people involved in Japanese studies with access to a smartphone or tablet will be aware of the kuzushiji (cursive … Continue reading Practicing Reading Cursive Japanese with Miwo
The Digital Orientalist 