Some error occured while loading the Quick View. Please close the Quick View and try reloading the page.
Working with manuscripts has become a digital affair. But, are there downsides to digital photos? And how can you take advantage of the incredible computing power you have literally at your fingertips? Cornelis van Lit explains in detail what happens when manuscript studies meets digital humanities. In Among Digitized Manuscripts you will learn why it is important to include a note on the photo quality in your codicological description, how to draw, collect, and publish glyphs of paleographic interest, what standards (such as TEI and IIIF) to abide by when transcribing a text, how to write custom software for image recognition, and much more. The leading principle is that learning a little about computers will already be of great benefit.
Price: $181.00
Pages: 336
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
07 November 2019
ISBN: 9789004415218
Format: Hardcover
“Among Digitized Manuscripts is well worth a read. The four practical chapters and the digital appendix are a resource that students and scholars wishing to work more effectively with digital manuscripts will return to as a reference.” Kelly Tuttle in Reviews
“The combination of theoretic considerations with hands-on tutorials and personal experience from ‘the field’ is the result of van Lit’s previous work in the digital humanities and, at the same time, an attempt to provide fledgling digital scholars with everything they need.” Cornelius Berthold in Der Islam 98/2 (2021)
“The combination of theoretic considerations with hands-on tutorials and personal experience from ‘the field’ is the result of van Lit’s previous work in the digital humanities and, at the same time, an attempt to provide fledgling digital scholars with everything they need.” Cornelius Berthold in Der Islam 98/2 (2021)
L.W. Cornelis van Lit, O.P., is a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University and a friar of the Order of Preachers. His main expertise lies in medieval Islamic philosophy. He runs the online magazine The Digital Orientalist.