At The Digital Orientalist, we value diverse voices and perspectives in the field of digital humanities (DH). While we usually invite applications for contributors, editors, and guest contributors,…

In my last article, I wrote about my experiments to improve the accuracy of a Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) model using Transkribus. This is part of my ongoing work with the ERC-funded project…

This is a post by Zhaleh Nayebossadrian | Sapienza University of Rome Introduction: The Digital Turn in Persian Persian Studies, traditionally grounded in the philological analysis of manuscripts a…

This is a guest post by Saniya Irfan. Digital Humanities in South Asia often begins with negotiating invisibility, the invisibility of our languages in NLP resources, datasets, and interfaces. Work…

Introduction The first article of this series explored recent advances in the digital study of Arabic script in France in general. It traced the beginnings of digital studies applied to Arabic scri…

Inspired by a workshop given by Dr. Alex Mallett (Waseda University) that I attended in May last year, I recently began experimenting with Transkribus,a platform that, amongst other things, allows …