LibGuides: Middle Eastern Studies: Digital Scholarship

Digital Scholarship in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies

Islamic Digital Humanities and Middle Eastern Studies digital scholarship are constantly developing fields, with exciting projects coming out regularly. Here are some resources and projects to keep an eye on, if you are interested in digital scholarship in these areas.

Middle East Studies Association Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship for the Purpose of Hiring, Tenure & Promotion
The Digital Orientalist: blog on digital tools and developments relevant to Islamic Studies scholarship.
OpenITI: The Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI) is a multi-institutional effort to construct the first machine-actionable scholarly corpus of premodern Islamicate texts.
eScriptorium (part of OpenITI): A digital text production pipeline for print and handwritten texts using machine learning techniques.
KITAB: Knowledge, Information Technology, and the Arabic Book is a project to study the formation and development of the written Arabic tradition with digital methods.
Persian Digital Library (PDL): A Roshan Institute for Persian Studies project to produce the first machine-actionable premodern Persian corpus.
Istanbul Urban Database: Istanbul Urban Database (IUDB) is an interactive sustainable web mapping application for research and the public. IUDB blends a wide range of historical data, and is the most comprehensive online archive of Istanbul’s urban history. The project aims to preserve collective memory, and architectural and urban heritage of Istanbul in an open-access multimedia platform.

At UT Austin:

Center for Open Education Resources and Language Learning (COERLL): Aims to improve the teaching and learning of foreign languages by producing resources (materials and best practices) that can be profitably employed in a variety of settings.
فارسی ایران امروز / Persian of Iran Today: The first open access textbook and resources for studying modern Persian.
Her Şey Bir Merhaba ile Başlar: an openly licensed, intermediate level Turkish curriculum developed by Dr. Jeannette Okur UT Austin Department of Middle Eastern Studies).

Digital Tools and Educational Resources

#dariahTeach: An open source, multilingual, community-driven platform for high quality teaching and training materials for the digital arts and humanities.

OpenITI mARkdown: A light-weight tagging scheme that renders premodern and early modern Islamicate texts machine readable and can be adapted to specific research tasks.

Northwestern University Knight Lab: A suite of storytelling tools, such as TimelineJS and JuxtaposeJS.

Scalar: Born-digital, open source, media-rich scholarly publishing.

StoryMaps (powered by ArcGIS): Combine maps with text, images, and multimedia content.

Kumu: A network visualization tool.