The Middle East Digital Humanities Digest

What is #PalestineToday? #PalestineToday is the social media hashtag created to encourage Palestinians to share their Nakpa stories  by sharing their place of birth on  Palestine Today interactive map website.  Palestinian Today is a project made by visualizing Palestine (VP).  VP creates data-driven tools to advance a factual, rights-based narrative of the Palestinian-Israeli issue. This project involves researchers, designers, technologists, and communications specialists work in partnership with civil society actors to amplify their impact and promote justice and equality. VP was launched in 2012. VP is the first portfolio of Visualizing Impact (VI), an independent, non-profit laboratory for innovation at the intersection of data science, technology, and design. Here is a video on How to navigate  Palestine Today interactive map and share your story.  Tip: Use Your Mouse Scroll while navigating interactive Map Why #PalestineToday? The 1948 Palestinian exodus, also known as the #

The Middle East Digital Humanities Digest is a blog created by the Digital Humanities program at the American University in Cairo Libraries & Learning technologies. AUC is a leading English-language, American-accredited institution of higher education and center of the intellectual, social, and cultural life of the Arab world. Its community of students, parents, faculty and staff, trustees, alumni, and other generous sponsors represent more than 60 countries. The University stands as a crossroads for the world’s cultures and a vibrant forum for reasoned argument, spirited debate, and understanding across the diversity of languages, facilities, and human experiences. MEDHD Vision: Quality guide of content for digital humanities projects and content in Egypt and the Middle East. MEDHD Audience: (Our ideal reader & Bloggers) MEDHD  blog intends to be a space for digital humanists, librarians, scholars, and researchers, and students who show great interest or experience in

Mohamed Amer, MA, Global cultures, Bologna University, 2019    There is no doubt that the first step in decolonizing any cultural heritage object is to re-document it in a way that is appropriate to its historical context. Consequently, digital documentation has a significant role in the decolonization process, since historical contexts can be rewritten better during digital documentation. Hence, it comes the vital role of Linked Open Data in recontextualizing the history of heritage belongings by using cultural heritage management software, which is based on LOD.     Since culture by nature is a cross border and interlinked, the value of Linked Open Data is very high and also very challenging. Rosetta Stone was a key to deciphering the ancient Egyptian civilization by linking the three writings Ancient Egyptian language, Demotic, and Ancient Greek to each other. Linked Open Data can perform the same function as it connects the different resources, representations, and perspe