Building Handwritten Ground Truth for HTR with the Google Vision API in Google Drive
Building Handwritten Ground Truth for HTR with the Google Vision API in Google Drive By Fady John In today’s digital era, leveraging advanced technologies ...
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How Open is Open Source Spatial Data?
How Open is Open Source Spatial Data? By Everett Pruitt At its core, OpenGulf attempts to model forms of open scholarship, by relying on open methods, open...
Custom Named Entity Recognition in Lorimer’s Gazetteer with Spacy
Lorimer’s Gazetteer with Spacy By Alma Kapan I. Project Motivation This article is second in the series exploring automated Named Entity Recognition (NER)...
Named Entity Recognition in Lorimer’s Gazetteer with NLTK
Named Entity Recognition in Lorimer’s Gazetteer with NLTK By Alma Kapan I. Project Motivation This project sits at the intersection of Data Mining, Digita...
The Waterways of Arabistan (Khuzestan) in Lorimer’s Gazetteer
The Waterways of Arabistan (Khuzestan) in Lorimer’s Gazetteer By Everett Pruitt In the work that we know as Lorimer’s Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman a...
Place Name Changes in Arabistan (Khuzestan)
Place Name Changes in Arabistan (Khuzestan) By Everett Pruitt Place names in Khuzestan, a region of Iran, have changed tremendously over the last century. ...
How Open is Open Source Spatial Data?
How Open is Open Source Spatial Data? By Everett Pruitt At its core, OpenGulf attempts to model forms of open scholarship, by relying on open methods, open...
2020
Wādi Tāyīn: Then and Now
Wādi Tāyīn: Then and Now By Nada Ammagui John G. Lorimer, the British civil servant who compiled a 5,000-page, two-volume secret encyclopedia entitled Gaze...
Handwritten Gulf Archives
Using deep learning for handwritten text recognition This Handwritten Gulf Archives project focuses on making handwritten archives about the Gulf region acc...
Extracting Data from Plain Text Files
Extracting Repeated Quantities from Plain Text Files Using AntConc and Formulas in Google Sheets By Liyan Ibrahim When creating historical data for map-mak...
From Digital Historical Source to Leaflet Maps
From Digital Historical Source to Leaflet Maps By Liyan Ibrahim Visualizing historical data is a great method of portraying important historical informatio...