Call for Papers: A Workshop on Citation (25th-26th July 2022)
Modeling Attribution and Acknowledgement in the Digital Humanities: Citation Practices and the Pre-Modern Arabic Book.
Citation practices are at the heart of the study of book history. Through the identification of isnads and of the names and networks that isnads represent, we are exploring how authors use citations and what they mean when they use isnads. Combining this information with text reuse data, we can also study when certain authors cite authorities and when they fail to do so.
These matters and other related research questions are explored in the following blog posts:
From Networks to Named Entities and Back Again: Exploring Isnad Networks
From Networks to Named Entities and Back Again: Exploring Isnad Networks
Mapping Who’s Who in Isnads – First Steps
One of the major challenges for those working with historical Arabic texts lies in names, and in the variety of ways that authors might refer to the same per...
Between Manuscripts and Digital Texts: Commentaries on Hadith Raʾs al-Jalut
For us as digital historians and corpus curators, faced with the complex history of reception and transmission as well as the distinct approach to learning a...
Algorithmic Reading of Shiʿi Hadith Collections: Direct Borrowing and Common Sources
It is not accidental that a large number of books in the OpenITI corpus belong to one important genre, prophetic Hadith – the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad...
Tracking Traditions: Identifying Isnads in the OpenITI Corpus
Due to its size and coverage, the OpenITI corpus is useful for a wide variety of research purposes. In particular, it represents an excellent opportunity to ...