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.
This is a contribution by Christine Roughan of NYU. Connect with her on Twitter @cmroughan Over the summer of 2019, inspired by the promising results in articles like Romanov et al. 2017, I set out to use the … Continue reading Using Kraken to Train your own OCR Models
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
Users of Google Chrome have long been able to customize their browsing experiences by installing extensions; small pieces of software … Continue reading Creating a “Launcher” Extension for Google Chrome
Yes we all know; Google translator is best described as “quick and dirty”. Nonetheless, we all use it because it … Continue reading Google Translate with One Click (Mac)
Millions of documents have been scanned and stored as images of pages. Now what? For the past 1,5 years I … Continue reading Announcing a Handbook for DH and Manuscript Studies
The most famous Arabic digital library (both online and on computer) is al-Shamila. It contains roughly 7260 Arabic books (when this … Continue reading Why Shamila? Arabic Libraries on your Computer
The book The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies provides an excellent introduction into DH for students and scholars. … Continue reading Review of The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies
Many people in universities have a Mac. Yet, the world still for the most part runs on Windows. This can … Continue reading Running Windows software on Mac
In a little article I recently published, I show how modern graphic design software can be used to analyze symbols … Continue reading Using graphic design software to unravel ancient mysteries
A first essay on what The Digital Orientalist is about just came out in MELA Notes. Read it it here, … Continue reading The Digital Orientalist: A Manifesto
The Digital Orientalist 