by Lorenz Nigst | Jul 13, 2021 | What's new |
At present, the OpenITI / KITAB corpus comprises 10,243 text files, 6,268 of which are unique titles. Such a large, and growing, number of texts makes quality control challenging. But at the same time, it is precisely this large number of texts that can be the basis...
by Peter Verkinderen | Jul 13, 2021 | What's new |
One of the participants in our KITAB user group asked for an easy way to find out which are the most frequently used words in a text. There are quite a lot of online tools that allow you to upload a file (or provide a link to a web page) and will produce a nice table...
by Ryan Muther | May 31, 2021 | What's new |
I have previously written for the project about detecting isnads, Arabic citations which give a chain of individuals involved in the transmission of information rather than the single source common in other forms of citation, in the OpenITI corpus using machine...
by Aslisho Qurboniev | Apr 29, 2021 | What's new |
Quantitative and Macro-analytic Approaches What do we know about the authors of the earliest Arabic books in terms of their native origins and linguistic and cultural backgrounds? Were the majority of them Arabic-speaking Muslims from imperial capitals, or non-Arab...
by Mathew Barber | Apr 29, 2021 | What's new |
Can Digital Humanities be informed by bioinformatics? Visualising passim data for multiple-book relationships As KITAB’s research has shown, passim is an incredibly powerful tool for answering a variety of questions about book history and history in general. The...
by Anjum Alam | Mar 30, 2021 | What's new |
This annual exploratory and informal workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on history writing in Arabic. We encourage contributions focused on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies that investigate history writing in the Middle East and North Africa...
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