African Studies, AI, OCR, Textual Analysis, Visualization

Islam West Africa Collection: Dataset, Distant Reading, and Uses of AI for Discourse Analysis

Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC), created and maintained by F. Madore, is an open-access database that provides access to press clippings from the mainstream press in West African (Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo, Niger, Nigeria) as well as Islamic publications, and video recordings, all of those documents related to Islam. Complex tools enable discourse analysis and answer various scientific questions through keywords mapping, topic modelling, sentiment analysis and spatial visualization. Continue reading Islam West Africa Collection: Dataset, Distant Reading, and Uses of AI for Discourse Analysis

DH in Practice, New Post, Tibetan Studies, Visualization

Beyond Rows and Columns: Visualising Data with RAWGraphs

One of the biggest challenges of working with large (and often incomplete) collections of data lies in how best to … Continue reading Beyond Rows and Columns: Visualising Data with RAWGraphs

Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Biblical Studies, Coding, DH in Practice, New Post, Online Resources, Visualization

Exploring the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room API

While not readily apparent, the New Testament Virtual Manuscript (NTVMR) room has an API that is publicly accessible. An API, … Continue reading Exploring the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room API

DH in Practice, New Post, Online Resources, Ottoman Studies, Visualization

Flourish: Visualizing Ottoman Migration to the United States

This article examines the flow of Ottoman citizens, including Armenians, Jews, Christians, and Muslims, to the United States during the … Continue reading Flourish: Visualizing Ottoman Migration to the United States

Japanese Studies, Online Resources, Textual Analysis, Visualization

On Voyant Tools, Stopword Lists, and Japanese Textual Analysis and Visualisation

Over the past year, I have been working on a textual analysis project exploring Japanese understandings of Judaism, Israel, and … Continue reading On Voyant Tools, Stopword Lists, and Japanese Textual Analysis and Visualisation

DH in Practice, New Post, Visualization

Bridging Narratives and Data: ResearchSpace 4.0.0 and the Power of Knowledge Graphs

Decades ago, one of the main concerns of the cultural heritage community was the lack of digitized data. Although digitization … Continue reading Bridging Narratives and Data: ResearchSpace 4.0.0 and the Power of Knowledge Graphs

DH in General, New Post, Online Resources, Visualization

Tools for Literature Mapping

In the ever-expanding web of academic literature, exploring the research landscape and searching for publications can often feel complicated, overwhelming, … Continue reading Tools for Literature Mapping

Apps, Biblical Studies, DH in Practice, New Post, Online Resources, Software, Textual Analysis, Visualization

Analyzing Collation Files: Apatosaurus

In my last post, I explored how to collate TEI XML transcriptions of Greek New Testament manuscripts, yielding a TEI … Continue reading Analyzing Collation Files: Apatosaurus

Buddhist Studies, DH in Practice, Digitization, Tibetan Studies, Visualization

An Intertextual Heatmap: Tantra of the Sun’s Reception in 14th century Tibet

How do you map 14th-century Buddhist intertextuality? Stanford scholar Elaine Lai shares how she created a digital heatmap to visualize textual connections between the “Tantra of the Sun” and its commentaries, offering new insights into citation patterns and textual authority. Continue reading An Intertextual Heatmap: Tantra of the Sun’s Reception in 14th century Tibet

DH in General, Teaching, Visualization

Introducing Network Analysis in the Classroom

In March and May 2024, as a Training Fellow of the Centre of Data, Culture, and Society (CDCS) at the … Continue reading Introducing Network Analysis in the Classroom