PG Sindhi Library: Revisiting the Archive after 18 Months Archives and archive building hold great potential within the theory and praxis of digital humanities in India. Sindhi, a minor language in India, is a non-regional language. It is unique in the se…

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Having introduced the PG #Sindhi #Library #archive 2 years ago, Soni Wadhwa followed up her previous piece by exploring how the archive has progressed its work on annotation, transliteration, and curation.

Read it here: digitalorientalist.com/2025/01/03/p...

Digitising the Archives of a Rural Radio in Mali: A Transnational Project The Malian radio station in Kayes, close to the Senegalese border, was founded in 1988, as part of an Italian cooperation program and in the context of an authoritarian state with a monopoly on inf…

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Do you work with sound? 🎶 What about #radio? In this post, Anaïs Wion introduces an #archival project that #digitized material from a rural Radio Station in #Mali.

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Using Furigana Bunko Those who have spoken to me about transcription might know that I swear by Furigana Bunko. Sadly, I rarely find this enthusiasm shared by others, and when I recommend the platform few start using i…

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This year James Harry Morris published a guide to using the online word frequency #dictionary #FuriganaBunko with examples of how he uses it for #palaeography and the #transcription of pre-modern #Japanese texts.

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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 understand and utilise them. How can we locate the trends, patterns, and relations…

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Back in May our Ed-in-Chief, Rachael Griffiths published on her experiments using #RAWGraphs to create visualizations of networks using data on #Tibetan manuscripts. Check out this guide to a highly accessible and beginner-friendly tool:

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How the Sounds (Im)properly Educate the People: Korea and the World, Then, and Now This week’s post was written by Tomasz Sleziak. Sleziak is a scholar in Korean studies (particularly Korean but also global Confucianism) and Post-Humanism, conducting research on Confucian socio-l…

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Tomasz Sleziak explores lessons related to ideology and communications in pre-modern #Korea and draws parallels with the modern world!

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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, or Application Programming Interface, allows users to interact with an …

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“Exploring the #NewTestament Virtual #Manuscript Room API,” Zach Butler discusses how to use NTVMR’s API for research.

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