Arash Zeini

Tag: Digital Humanities

  • TEI Template

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    <news>A first and hopefully usable draft of my #TEI template is finally ready! I have created this template for our @invisible_east corpus that will host a range of documents in Middle Persian, Bactrian, Sogdian, Khotanese, Arabic and New Persian.</news> اولین پیش‌نویس الگو TEI که برای اسناد فارسی میانه، بلخی، سغدی، ختنی، فارس و عربی نوشتم،…

  • History of Humanities

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    Last week, I taught about Anquetil-Duperron, William Jones, the discovery of language similarity and the beginnings of IE Studies. Disciplines such as Iranian Studies or #Indology, as we know them today, would not have been possible without those efforts and contributions. I also made it a point to at least briefly discuss “genesis amnesia” and…

  • Digital humanities and text re-use

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    The concept of text re-use in early Islamic historiography was first brought to my attention by François de Blois, whose courses were always so much more than just an introduction to a language such as Middle Persian. Recently, it has been Sarah Savant, who has drawn attention to text re-use and its application in the…

  • Afghanistan Digital Library

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    The immediate objective of the Afghanistan Digital Library is to retrieve and restore the first sixty years of Afghanistan’s published cultural heritage. The project is collecting, cataloging, digitizing, and making available over the Internet as many Afghan publications from the period 1871–1930 as it is possible to identify and locate.

  • open.marginalis

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    open.marginalis, a curated aggregation of medieval marginalia, explores tumblr as a platform for digital scholarship.

  • Symposium: British Library Persian manuscripts

    Symposium: British Library Persian manuscripts

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    The British Library is holding a one-day symposium on the theme of digitisation and new research on its collection of Persian manuscripts, one of the most significant in the world in both size and importance. British Library Persian Manuscripts: Collections and Research British Library Conference Centre, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB Friday, 31 October…

  • Digital Critical Editions

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    After a hiatus: Apollon, Daniel, Claire Belisle & Philippe Regnier (eds.). 2014. Digital Critical Editions. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. This edited volume explores intersections of traditional and digital textual scholarship. For more information, see here.

  • Digitised copy of Shahnameh

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    A digitised copy of a Shahnameh dated 614 H./1217 and held at the Italian National Library in Florence is now available online. Access the digitised version here, or read more about the manuscript here.

  • EAGLE 2014 International Conference

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    International Conference on Information Technologies for Epigraphy and Digital Cultural Heritage in the Ancient World 29 September–1 October 2014, Paris, France Organised by EAGLE with the support of Collège de France Chaire Religion, institutions et société de la Rome antique and École Normale Supérieure. For more information, see here.

  • Introduction to TEI and oXygen

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    As part of our group’s ongoing engagement with the Yasna, I will be leading a one day workshop on TEI and oXygen. This is an internal meeting with the aim of introducing the participants of the Yasna project to the ideas behind encoding texts and exploring features offered by the oXygen XML editor. This is…

  • Conference on Digital Islamic Humanities

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    The Asian and African studies blog of the British Library has a very useful summary of the recent conference, The Digital Humanities + Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, which was organised and hosted by the Middle Eastern Studies Department of Brown University. The overview has links to some of the papers, slides and project websites.…