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Tag: Digitization

A Guide for Using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (Part 1)
Biblical Studies, DH in General, DH in Practice, Digitization, Online Resources, Software, Textual Analysis, Visualization, Workflow

A Guide for Using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (Part 1)

Greg Paulson has already written a very helpful introduction to the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (NTVMR) as a guest … Continue reading A Guide for Using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (Part 1)

Old Maps Online: mapping sites and siting maps
DH in Practice, Digital Cartography, Digitization, Online Resources

Old Maps Online: mapping sites and siting maps

After my recent deep dive into Toyo Bunko, in this post I will talk about another great digital tool for … Continue reading Old Maps Online: mapping sites and siting maps

MapHub: A Brief Tutorial
DH in Practice, Digital Cartography, Online Resources, Ottoman Studies, Visualization

MapHub: A Brief Tutorial

MapHub allows users to make either thematic or regional maps using Geographic Information Systems as an interactive map. It provides … Continue reading MapHub: A Brief Tutorial

<strong>The Toyo Bunko Archive: a source of joy and torment</strong>
Buddhist Studies, DH in General, Digitization, OCR, Online Resources, Uncategorized

The Toyo Bunko Archive: a source of joy and torment

As promised previously, in this post I am leading you in a deep dive into a major digital archive I … Continue reading The Toyo Bunko Archive: a source of joy and torment

eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 1
DH in Practice, Digitization, HTR, Indian Studies, OCR, Online Resources, Software, South Asian Studies, Workflow

eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 1

State-of-the-art OCR engines use trainable models to perform two consecutive tasks that produce machine-actionable transcriptions. They first segment the position … Continue reading eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 1

How to build a community of collaborative transcription? Feed-back from an on-going project
African Languages, African Studies, DH in Practice, Software

How to build a community of collaborative transcription? Feed-back from an on-going project

(Part 1) For my first post here on African studies and the use of digital tools, I’ll talk about my … Continue reading How to build a community of collaborative transcription? Feed-back from an on-going project

Digital resources for the study of Buddhist Art in Central Asia: a general overview
Buddhist Studies, Digitization, Indian Studies, Online Resources, Workflow

Digital resources for the study of Buddhist Art in Central Asia: a general overview

When it comes to Buddhist studies, the number of online resources can feel very overwhelming – from the thousands of … Continue reading Digital resources for the study of Buddhist Art in Central Asia: a general overview

Shuge: Visual Materials in a Digitizing World
Digitization, Sinology, Topics

Shuge: Visual Materials in a Digitizing World

Shuge 書格 is a free, online database of Chinese rare books, which offers a continuously expanding collection of high-quality scans for … Continue reading Shuge: Visual Materials in a Digitizing World

Visualizing North China Under Japanese Occupation: Digitized Photos of the North China Railway Archive
Japanese Studies, Mongolian Studies, Online Resources, Sinology

Visualizing North China Under Japanese Occupation: Digitized Photos of the North China Railway Archive

Digitizing the Visual Legacies of the North China Transportation Company The North China Railway Archive (華北交通アーカイブ) is an online database … Continue reading Visualizing North China Under Japanese Occupation: Digitized Photos of the North China Railway Archive

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