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Record Nr.

UNINA9910404254703321

Autore

Lit Lambertus Willem Cornelis van

Titolo

Among digitized manuscripts : philology, codicology, paleography in a digital world / / by L.W.C van Lit, O.P

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brill, 2019

Leiden Boston : , : BRILL, , 2020

ISBN

90-04-40035-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East

Disciplina

091.0285

Soggetti

Codicology - Data processing

Digital humanities

Islamic civilization - Manuscripts - Library resources

Manuscripts - Data processing

Manuscripts - Digitization

Paleography - Data processing

Philology - Data processing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Manuscript World, Print World, Digital World -- The Digital Materiality of Digitized Manuscripts -- Digitized Manuscripts and Their Repositories, an Ethnography -- Paleography: Unraveling Mysterious Symbols on a Computer -- Philology: Standards for Digital Editing -- Digital Cataloging: the Geyer Collection at the Monastery of Sankt Florian -- Codicology: Automated Analysis Using Python and OpenCV -- A Digital Orientalist.

Sommario/riassunto

"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".