Islamic Digital Humanities and Middle Eastern Studies digital scholarship are nascent fields, with exciting developments coming out regularly. Here are a few projects and scholars to keep an eye on, if you are interested in digital scholarship in these areas.
At UT Austin:
#dariahTeach: An open source, multilingual, community-driven platform for high quality teaching and training materials for the digital arts and humanities.
Scalar: Born-digital, open source, media-rich scholarly publishing.
Northwestern University Knight Lab: A suite of storytelling tools, such as TimelineJS and JuxtaposeJS.
StoryMaps (powered by ArcGIS): Combine maps with text, images, and multimedia content.
Kumu: A network visualization tool.
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.
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