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..
In my previous post about the text-matching database BuddhaNexus, I corresponded with project co-director Orna Almogi, who described the promise … Continue reading Text-Matching at the Canonical Crossroads: An Introduction to BuddhaNexus (Part II)
So you have heard about some cool text analysis tools that identify word frequencies, generate word clouds, and look for … Continue reading Data Cleaning Chinese Text with OpenRefine
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
Part I : Iran Abstract Fingernail art is a little known and studied Persian artistic medium, which was used in … Continue reading Fingernail Art: Three-dimensional Calligraphy and Drawing in the 19th-Century
Biblical work obviously primarily relies on working with “the text.” However, as anyone involved in biblical studies knows, there really … Continue reading Digitized Hebrew and Greek Manuscripts: Access and Issues
BuddhaNexus is a text-matching database with visualization capabilities that draws its data from Buddhist literary corpora in Pāli, Sanskrit, Tibetan, … Continue reading Text-Matching at the Canonical Crossroads: An Introduction to BuddhaNexus (Part I)
Though laity and scholars of other disciplines may not know them, most scholars involved in biblical studies will probably be … Continue reading Trustworthy, Freely Available Primary Sources for Biblical 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
Introduction Web scraping is a technique that allows us to extract and copy specific pieces of data from a website. … Continue reading Web Scraping with Python for Beginners
Whether we are involved in Japanese Studies or Islamic Studies, Near Eastern Studies or African Studies, we are all likely … Continue reading Making a Basic Textual Analysis program in Python
