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Hauptseminar
Digital Philological Methods for Arabic and Islamic Studies
Theodore Samuel Beers
Kommentar
This course will be taught primarily in English and is intended for upper-level BA students and MA students in Arabic and Islamic Studies who would like to develop the skills of a “digital humanist.” Students should bring their own laptops to class; part of the idea is for everyone to get a good development environment set up on their machine, to build some familiarity with command-line scripting, etc.
Over the course of the semester, we will cover a range of topics that are relevant for philological work in Arabic and Islamic Studies in the digital age. The following are some of the research tasks that are envisioned: searching for manuscript copies of premodern texts (in Arabic and other languages of the Islamicate world) in various collections; downloading images of those manuscripts, where available; running software to analyze digitized texts, e.g., optical character recognition (OCR) for published works, or handwritten text recognition (HTR) for manuscripts; setting up a viable workflow for transcribing texts in Arabic-script languages; using Git for version control and storing/publishing work on GitHub; using corpora of digitized texts, e.g., al-Maktaba al-Shamila or Ganjoor; and accessing APIs. Again, this list is not exhaustive. Nor can everything be taught in one semester; but we will make substantial progress.
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Literaturhinweise
We will use a wide range of materials, with one of the central resources being Cornelis van Lit’s Among Digitized Manuscripts (Brill, 2020).
13 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung
Mi, 17.04.2024 10:00 - 12:00
Mi, 24.04.2024 10:00 - 12:00
Mi, 08.05.2024 10:00 - 12:00
Mi, 15.05.2024 10:00 - 12:00
Mi, 22.05.2024 10:00 - 12:00
Mi, 29.05.2024 10:00 - 12:00
Mi, 05.06.2024 10:00 - 12:00
Mi, 12.06.2024 10:00 - 12:00
Mi, 19.06.2024 10:00 - 12:00
Mi, 26.06.2024 10:00 - 12:00
Mi, 03.07.2024 10:00 - 12:00
Mi, 10.07.2024 10:00 - 12:00
Mi, 17.07.2024 10:00 - 12:00