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The Digital Orientalist is calling for papers

The Digital Orientalist is pleased to announce the call for papers for its annual conference. The theme for this year’s event is AI and the Digital Humanities for the Study of Asia, Africa, and Oceania. Key Information: Abstract submission deadline: 31 March 2025Conference date: 31 May 2025 Location: on Zoom To see the full call… Continue reading The Digital Orientalist is calling for papers

Nomination of Alíz Horváth’s article

Our chair, Alíz Horváth, is happy to report that her article, “Centring Multilingual Users: Thinking through UX Personas in the DH Community” (Digital Studies/Le champs numérique, 2024), co-authored with Cosima Wagner, Cornelis van Lit, and David Wrisley, has been nominated for this year’s DH Award in the Best short publication category. You can find the… Continue reading Nomination of Alíz Horváth’s article

Multilingual DH in Focus by Joanne Bernardi

We would like to draw our community’s attention to a recent post on The Digital Orientalist blog by Joanne Bernardi, Professor of Japanese and Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. Like the author, we view the growing presence of multilingual digital humanities (DH) at the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) annual… Continue reading Multilingual DH in Focus by Joanne Bernardi

Multilinguality in Action

Multilingual DH has had a busy year and many events, publications, tools, etc. have been reported here but others are still waiting! Hence we wanted to share today with our community the latest publication of our chair Alíz Horváth et al., “Multilinguality in Action: Towards Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in Digital Humanities”, which is available… Continue reading Multilinguality in Action

Multilingual Network Analysis with Python

We have great news for our multilingual DH community! Golnaz Sarkar Farshi has recently released MLNA, a Python package and app for MultiLingual Network Analysis!Here’s the link to MLNA’s official website: https://goli-sf.github.io/MLNA/To help you get started, she has created two detailed video tutorials tailored to different user needs:* For Python Users: To learn how to use… Continue reading Multilingual Network Analysis with Python

Multilingual DH in the UK and Ireland

At the end of September, our colleagues from the Multilingual Digital Humanities in the UK and Ireland Community Interest Group published a survey report about the situation of the field in their countries and their recommendations to address the issues that they highlighted. The report, “Multilingual DH in the UK and Ireland: Summary Report and… Continue reading Multilingual DH in the UK and Ireland

Workflows for multilingual corpus building

As we announced on social media and on DARIAH’s main blog, our workshop in Hamburg at the end of August was particularly fruitful. During this three-day event on Creating, Managing and Archiving Textual Corpora in Under-resourced Languages, we created three main workflows: Building textual corpora for under-resourced Languages Managing textual corpora in under-resourced languages Archiving… Continue reading Workflows for multilingual corpus building

The basics of Bidi

Deborah (Debbie) Anderson (Project lead, Script Encoding Initiative, Dept. of Linguistics, UC Berkeley) is helping in the organisation of a Unicode-hosted event on bidirectional text. “The basics of Bidi” Tuesday, June 25, 2024 at 08:00 AM Pacific Time. Background A number of scripts, such as Arabic and Hebrew, write their letters horizontally on a page or screen,… Continue reading The basics of Bidi

Creating, Managing and Archiving Textual Corpora in Under-resourced Languages

As we announced previously, our Multilingual DH Working Group has won funding from DARIAH together with the DARIAH Research Data Management Working Group to organize a hybrid workshop, entitled “Creating, Managing, and Archiving Textual Corpora in Under-resourced Languages.” This 2,5-day workshop, organized between August 28-30, 2024 at the University of Hamburg and online, will provide… Continue reading Creating, Managing and Archiving Textual Corpora in Under-resourced Languages

DARIAH Multilingual DH WG’s community day

DARIAH Annual Event (June 18-21, 2024) is approaching and our Multilingual DH Working Group’s community day event will take place on June 18 at 4:00-5:30pm (GMT – Lisbon is in the same time zone as London). We plan to hold a community event with the participation and brief presentations of various representatives from DARIAH’s member countries. … Continue reading DARIAH Multilingual DH WG’s community day