#PostFromThePast

Peter Tarras

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6 months ago

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The Digital Orientalist

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7 months ago

Mapping A Thousand Buddhist Monasteries in Mongolia: Introducing the Digital Database “Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries” What is the Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries The Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries is an online database featuring more than a thousand historical and extant Buddhist sites in the Mongol…

One of our most popular pieces on #Mongolian and #Buddhist studies; in 2021 former editor-in-chief Daigengna Duoer introduced readers to the online #database and #mapping project “Documentation of Mongolian #Monasteries.”

🔗 See this #PostFromThePast here: digitalorientalist.com/2021/01/29/m...

The Digital Orientalist

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7 months ago

Project Digitize It All: Using a Digital Camera For  digitizing a couple of dozen books at home, fast, I decided to use a digital camera. In this post I detail exactly what I did, how I did it, and why (includes video at end of post). As I have …

In 2014, the DO’s founder L.W.C. van Lit wrote about experiments using a DSLR camera to #digitize books as part of the series ProjectDigitizeItAll. This #PostFromThePast continues to be relevant for those of us wanting to scan our books today 👇

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The Digital Orientalist

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7 months ago

The Doha Historical Dictionary of Arabic In 2013 the Arabic Center for Research and Politics Studies launched an ambitious ongoing program to build an Arabic Historical Dictionary. This is the first Arabic dictionary that traces the origi…

Back in 2019 then editor for #IslamicStudies Maksim Abdul Latif introduced readers to the “Doha Historical Dictionary of #Arabic.” At only 390 words long this #PostFromThePast also shows how the DO's style of article has changed over the past 6 years.

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The Digital Orientalist

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8 months ago

Typing in Tamil in contemporary and ancient scripts Tamil is one of the twenty-two official languages spoken in India and its representation in writing dates back to the early centuries BCE. Like other languages which use non-Roman scripts, download…

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Published in 2021, Julie A Hanlon’s discussion of how to input different #Tamil scripts on a #QWERTY keyboard remains one of our most popular posts!

Check it out if you’re interested in #Indian studies or #keyboards👇

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