Generating Kuzushiji Images with Soan
It is a rarity that writers at the Digital Orientalist explore projects that might be described as “DH for fun,” … Continue reading Generating Kuzushiji Images with Soan
Category: Software
Video Games in the Classroom and the Non-Western World
Since starting my teaching career, I have increasingly integrated video games where I can into classroom activities, going so far … Continue reading Video Games in the Classroom and the Non-Western World
‘READ Workbench (part 2): Digital Repatriation, Pedagogy and Transnational Heritage’
Introduction: The READ Workbench and its Potential The READ (‘Research Environment for Ancient Documents’) Workbench, originally designed for interpreting and … Continue reading ‘READ Workbench (part 2): Digital Repatriation, Pedagogy and Transnational Heritage’
Knight Lab JS and Storytelling Tools
Knight Lab, produced by Northwestern University, is a community of designers, developers, students, and educators working on experiments designed to … Continue reading Knight Lab JS and Storytelling Tools
eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 3
OCR of historical printing in Bengali using segmentation and recognition models trained in Kraken from an annotated dataset of Bengali texts published between 1860 and 1940. Continue reading eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 3
A Guide for Using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (Part 1)
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)
A Twine Journey to Mecca: Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
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
An alternative to the undergraduate research paper: Online Exhibitions with ArtSteps
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
Nota Bene: Software for Academic Composition
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
eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 2
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
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