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.
A data model for modelling and visualizing the structure of books in codex formats has existed since the middle of … Continue reading Codicological Visualization of a Syriac Manuscript with VisCodex
This is the fourth post of a series by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac, based on his interview … Continue reading The Syriac Digital Humanities: An Interview with George A. Kiraz, Part 3
In addition to the contributions of the Beth Mardutho Institute to the world of Syriac Digital Humanities (which I have … Continue reading The Digital Syriac Corpus: An Interview with Prof. James E. Walters
During my training I was lucky enough to benefit from some of the most authoritative voices in the field of … Continue reading ‘Back to the Sources’: The First Steps in (Digital) Projects
A few months ago, I noticed a plethora of posts on social media about the discovery of the hidden library … Continue reading Social Media and the Distribution of Knowledge about Missing Syriac Manuscripts
Recently, Google updated its engine on many smartphones in order to add the new technology of Google Lens to its … Continue reading Google Lens for Syriac: Something Groundbreaking?
This is the third part of a series of posts by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac, based on … Continue reading The Syriac Digital Humanities: An Interview with George A. Kiraz, Part 2
In the past, the Digital Orientalist celebrated the virtues of brevity by regularly publishing short pieces, thoughts, and reflections. Some … Continue reading Some Short Reflections on Lists
For two years now, I have searched for a manuscript on the Synod of Hattackh of 1576. In the 1956, … Continue reading Re-Discovering MS Zafaran N. 12: A story of the power of social media and on finding lost materials in digital archives
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
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