philology, codicology, paleography in a digital world /
First Statement of Responsibility
by L.W.C van Lit, O.P.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Leiden ; Boston :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2020]
PROJECTED PUBLICATION DATE
Date
1911
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource
SERIES
Series Title
Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section one, The Near and Middle East,
Volume Designation
volume 137
ISSN of Series
0169-9423 ;
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"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"--