{"id":379,"date":"2018-07-01T12:52:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T08:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wldevhost.ir\/dh\/?p=379"},"modified":"2018-07-01T14:35:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T10:05:48","slug":"roshan-initiative-for-persian-digital-humanities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wldevhost.ir\/dh\/2018\/07\/01\/roshan-initiative-for-persian-digital-humanities\/","title":{"rendered":"Roshan Initiative for Persian Digital Humanities"},"content":{"rendered":"

About<\/a><\/h3>\n

The Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park has embarked on an ambitious Persian Digital Humanities initiative, the Roshan Initiative in Persian Digital Humanities at the University of Maryland (PersDig@UMD). It is a collaborative effort involving Roshan Institute for Persian Studies,\u00a0Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)<\/a>, and\u00a0UMD libraries<\/a>. We currently are developing three projects: the\u00a0Persian Digital Library (PDL)<\/a>\u00a0(part of the multi-institutional\u00a0Open Islamicate Texts Initiative<\/a>), the\u00a0Persian Manuscript Initiative (PMI)<\/a>, and the Lalehzar Digital Project (LDP).<\/p>\n

Projects<\/h3>\n

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\nIn its final form, the Persian Digital Library (PDL) will be a revolutionary new educational and research resource that will provide free access to the most important works of Persian poetry and prose in a collaborative online environment. It will aggregate and align multiple manuscript, print, and artistic renditions of each text (including available translations) and provide the user with automatic (\u201cclickable\u201d) dictionary and morphological analysis of each word. Scholars will turn to the PDL for its metadata-enriched text files, high-quality manuscript images, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) pipeline, and new open-source, multi-text critical editions of Persian works. Students will use the PDL to improve their Persian language skills and master the art of reading medieval manuscripts. Scholars, students, and Persian literature aficionados from across the world will all collaborate through the platform\u2019s collaborative workflows to add annotations and undertake new translations of the Persian classics. Much work, however, remains to been done to achieve this long-term goal.<\/p>\n

With the help of start-up funds from a LaunchUMD campaign in the fall of 2015, we began this larger project during the 2015-2016 academic year by completing a PDL Pilot (more details on the\u00a0PDL website<\/a>). We are now preparing to launch the implementation stage of corpus building for the PDL, in collaboration with the\u00a0KITAB Project of Aga Khan University (London)<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0OpenArabic Project of Universit\u00e4t Leipzig<\/a>. More details on this multi-institutional corpus-building initiative can be found at the\u00a0Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI) website<\/a>\u2014an umbrella organization that PersDig@UMD co-founded with our esteemed partners from KITAB\/Aga Khan University and OpenArabic\/Universit\u00e4t Leipzig.
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http:\/\/lalehzardistrict.org\/<\/a>
\nThe Lalehzar Digital Project (LDP) is a groundbreaking initiative and the hub of an international effort aimed at creating a multimedia archive of Tehran\u2019s historic entertainment district, Lalehzar Street. Frequently compared to New York\u2019s Broadway and Paris\u2019s Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es, between 1900 and 1979, Lalehzar Street was the heart of Tehran\u2019s cosmopolitan cultural production and development of modern Iranian urban practices and sites of sociability: it hosted dozens of hotels, restaurants, caf\u00e9s, publishing houses, theatrical and cinematic venues, and dancing halls alongside several mosques and chapels. Within close proximity of several major embassies, it was also a site for shopping and socialization for foreign residents and therefore functioned as a microcosm of diplomatic relations between Iran and the respective countries. Lalehzar was not merely a street but a vital cultural milieu of modern Iran: it was the birthplace of many modern Iranian performance genres (including those of political, popular, and\/or artistic nature), venues and educational institutions, as well as Iran\u2019s nightlife and entertainment industry. The LDP is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and presenting a wide range of rare documents pertaining to the multiple urban, business, diplomatic, cultural and artistic aspects of Lalehzar. These include visual sources (such as maps, footage and photographs of the street, its venues, and performances), textual sources (including advertisements, brochures and theatrical scripts), and aural and oral sources including music pieces. This data then will ultimatley be augmented for further analysis, tracing, and visualization of the spatial and cultural transformations of the street and its venues between 1900 and 1979.<\/p>\n

Team:<\/p>\n

* Mary Garhart<\/a>
\nUndergraduate Technology Apprenticeship Program
\nDates EmployedJan 2016 \u2013 Aug 2016 Employment Duration8 mos<\/p>\n