OpenITI release 2022.2.7

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The KITAB team has released a new version (2022.2.7) of the OpenITI corpus at Zenodo. The release is open access. It is our seventh release (second release i...

OpenITI release 2022.1.6

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The KITAB team has released a new version (2022.1.6) of the OpenITI corpus at Zenodo. The release is open access. It is our fifth release (second release in ...

OpenITI and the Fihrist: Analysis

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This is the third blog in a short series of blogs on the overlap between the OpenITI corpus and Ibn al-Nadim’s Fihrist. Please refer to the first part for a ...

OpenITI and the Fihrist: Methodology

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This is the second blog in a short series of blogs on the overlap between the OpenITI corpus and Ibn al-Nadim’s Fihrist. Please refer to the first part for a...

OpenITI and the Fihrist

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The corpus of texts the KITAB project uses as the basis for its research is a subsection of the OpenITI corpus. It contains Arabic-language texts of the firs...

OpenITI release 2021.2.5

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The KITAB team has released a new version (2021.2.5) of the OpenITI corpus at Zenodo. The release is open access. It is our fifth release (second release in ...

Using the Many to Spot the Few

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At present, the OpenITI/KITAB corpus comprises 10,243 text files, 6,268 of which are unique titles.

OpenITI release 2021.1.4

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The KITAB team has released a new version (2021.1.4) of the OpenITI corpus at Zenodo. The release is open access and freely available. It is our fourth relea...

OpenITI release 2020.2.3

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A new version (version 2020.2.3) of the OpenITI corpus is available at Zenodo, an Open Science platform that supports open access. This is the third release ...

Preserving Pre-Modern Terminologies

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To categorise things is a fundamental human and scholarly instinct and activity. And yet it is one not without obstacles, for we soon learn that the world is...

OpenITI, OCR, and Textual Criticism

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In previous posts, other members of the KITAB team have talked about building the OpenITI corpus of Arabic and Persian sources. Many members of the team are ...