Crowdsourcing for Ottoman Studies: Zooniverse
Speeding up a workforce by getting help, ideas, or information from a large audience over the Internet, via a website, … Continue reading Crowdsourcing for Ottoman Studies: Zooniverse
We Need a Better System: Streamlining Academic Digital Workflow from Reading to Writing
We are in an age of unprecedented information access. As academics in the humanities, we all have too much information … Continue reading We Need a Better System: Streamlining Academic Digital Workflow from Reading to Writing
Nail and Griffin on Paper: Exploring a Fingernail Calligraphy Album from Twentieth-century Iran
Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes (independent paper and book conservator and researcher, Utrecht, the Netherlands) and Shiva Mihan (Fellow in the School of … Continue reading Nail and Griffin on Paper: Exploring a Fingernail Calligraphy Album from Twentieth-century Iran
Can we really trust Digital Humanities?
When I write posts about Digital Humanities, be that here or in my blog in Russian, I tend to talk … Continue reading Can we really trust Digital Humanities?
Decolonize University-Based Journals
The Algerian Scientific Journals Platform (ASJP) is an electronic publishing platform developed and managed by the Research Center for Scientific and Technical Information (CERIST) of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria. Continue reading Decolonize University-Based Journals
A Solution for the Mess of Online Bookmarking?
I believe that I am not the only person who often ends up having multiple tabs open on my browser … Continue reading A Solution for the Mess of Online Bookmarking?
How about a copy stand?
When conducting research on documents pertaining to the Ashio Copper Mine Incident at Sano City Museum in late 2020, I … Continue reading How about a copy stand?
An Introduction to Coptic Scriptorium
This week’s guest contribution was organized by our Editor for Northeast African Studies, So Miyagawa, and was written by Lance … Continue reading An Introduction to Coptic Scriptorium
Data Cleaning Chinese Text with OpenRefine: Sentence Filtering
Following my first post for the Digital Orientalist on the topic of OpenRefine, in this post I would like to share … Continue reading Data Cleaning Chinese Text with OpenRefine: Sentence Filtering
NRICH: An extensive online resource for Korean cultural heritage
It’s no secret that the South Korean government has invested heavily in digitizing and making available a large amount of … Continue reading NRICH: An extensive online resource for Korean cultural heritage
The Digital Orientalist 