Persian Digital Humanities

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Web Name: Persian Digital Humanities

WebSite: http://persdig.umd.edu

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Artist: Rashin KheiriyehAbout PersDig@UMD

The Roshan Initiative in Persian Digital Humanities at the University of Maryland (PersDig@UMD) is a global leader in the field of Persian digital humanities. We currently are developing three projects: the Persian Digital Library (PDL) (part of the multi-institutional Open Islamicate Texts Initiative), the Persian Manuscript Initiative (PMI), and The Digital Guide to Theatre of the Middle East: 21st Century Volume ( DGTOME).

Projects Persian Digital Library (PDL) Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI) The Digital Guide to Theatre of the Middle East: 21st Century Volume ( DGTOME) Persian Manuscript Initiative (PMI) Persian Digital Library (PDL) and the Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI)

The Persian Digital Library (PDL) project and the multi-institutional Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI), of which it is a part, is building digital resources for the study of the premodern Persian world. Currently our work is primarily focused on the construction of a scholarly-verified and machine actionable corpus and optical character recognition (OCR)/handwritten text recognition (HTR) tools for Persian (and other Arabic-script languages). This work has generously been funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Please see the PDL and OpenITI websites for more information.

Persian Manuscript Initiative (PMI)

The Persian Manuscript Initiative (PMI) partners with leading libraries and archives around the world to digitally preserve Persian manuscripts and improve the quality of metadata we have for them. PMI is focused especially on preserving Persian manuscripts that may be at a risk of loss. In partnership with the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML) and local partners we have initiated projects in the Raja of Mahmudabad Palace Library (Lucknow, India) and the Anjuman-i Taraqqi-i Urdu (Karachi, Pakistan). Please see the PMI website for more details on all of these projects.

The Digital Guide to Theatre of the Middle East: 21st Century Volume ( DGTOME)

The Digital Guide to Theatre of the Middle East: 21st Century Volume (DGTOME) provides essential information on the most significant, influential, and relevant plays/performances written and/or performed in MENA theatres and their diasporas since 2000. The goal is to recognize and display the breadth and diversity of theatrical visions, creations, and collaborations of the MENA theatre artists to the members of the world academia and theatre community in an accessible and sustained form. As the first and only searchable database in the field of MENA theatre, DGTOME is designed for a variety of users, including educators, students, researchers, practitioners, translators, and the general public.

PersDig@UMD TeamOur Team at UMD Fatemeh Keshavarz Senior Advisor to PersDig@UMD

Director, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Director, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies
Roshan Institute Chair in Persian Studies

Ahmet T. Karamustafa Senior Advisor to PersDig@UMD

Professor of History, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies

Matthew Thomas Miller Director and Principal Investigator of PersDig@UMD

Assistant Professor of Persian Literature Digital Humanities, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies

Marjan Moosavi Principal Investigator DGTOME Project

Lecturer of Persian Studies and Performing Arts, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies

Mehdy Sedaghat Payam Graduate Research Assistant

Roshan Institute for Persian Studies

Advisory Board Members Wali Ahmadi

Associate Professor of Persian Literature
University of California, Berkeley

Devin Deweese

Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Adjunct Professor, Religious Studies
Indiana University, Bloomington

Asghar Seyed Gohrab

Senior Lecturer at Leiden University

Christiane Gruber

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at University of Michigan

Matthew Kirschenbaum

Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland and Associate Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities

Paul Losensky

Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Associate Professor, Comparative Literature
Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University Bloomington

Farzaneh Milani

Raymond J. Nelson Professor and Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures and former Director of Studies in Women and Gender at the University of Virginia

Elias Muhanna

Manning Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Brown University

Roopika Risam

Assistant professor of English and Secondary English Education at Salem State University

Omid Safi

Director, Duke Islamic Studies Center
Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC

Sunil Sharma

Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at Boston University
Associate Professor of Persianate and Comparative Literature

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi

Professor of History and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto and the Chair of the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto-Mississauga.

Carl W. Ernst

William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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