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Mar 16, 2021
Digitizing Land: Methods and Visualizing a Fifteenth-Century Egyptian Cadastral Survey

The work 'Kitāb al-Tuḥfah al-Sanīyah bi-Asmāʼ al-Bilād  al-Miṣrīyah' by Ibn al-Jīʿān (d. 1480) provides a unique dataset of cadastral data for Mamlūk Egypt (1250–1517). While several historians have attempted to employ the economic, social, political, and geographical information to explore different issues. However, it also presents a series of challenges in using digital tools to analyze its contents. This paper will discuss the methods taken to digitize a series of non-Latin script manuscripts for use in computational and geographical analysis. The paper will illustrate how such an approach can answer questions that traditional methods have left unanswered.

 

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All are welcome to attend, regardless of prior experience of the digital humanities. Registration is required for external participants. To register, and for further information on the Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch series email Research IT Group.

About This Series

Brown Bag Lunch is a meeting of researchers at the MPIWG who use or want to learn more about digital research methods, broadly encompassed by the term Digital Humanities. In the Brown Bag Lunch meetings, researchers can discuss tools, share ideas and experiences (good and bad), and learn from each other. Each session explores a new topic; workshops are usually interactive, and we often invite external speakers. Please feel free to bring your lunch, and a laptop or notebook in order to participate!

2021-03-16T12:00:00SAVE IN I-CAL 2021-03-16 12:00:00 2021-03-16 13:30:00 Digitizing Land: Methods and Visualizing a Fifteenth-Century Egyptian Cadastral Survey The work 'Kitāb al-Tuḥfah al-Sanīyah bi-Asmāʼ al-Bilād  al-Miṣrīyah' by Ibn al-Jīʿān (d. 1480) provides a unique dataset of cadastral data for Mamlūk Egypt (1250–1517). While several historians have attempted to employ the economic, social, political, and geographical information to explore different issues. However, it also presents a series of challenges in using digital tools to analyze its contents. This paper will discuss the methods taken to digitize a series of non-Latin script manuscripts for use in computational and geographical analysis. The paper will illustrate how such an approach can answer questions that traditional methods have left unanswered.   Shih-Pei ChenRobert CastiesDirk WintergrünPascal Belouin Shih-Pei ChenRobert CastiesDirk WintergrünPascal Belouin Europe/Berlin public