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Current Projects

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The Svoboda Diary Project

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The Emma B. Andrews Diary Project

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The Baki Project

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Georgian Digital Text Collective

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The Latifi Project

The Svoboda Diary Project

The Joseph Mathia Svoboda Diaries project is the multi-media publication of available diaries remaining from a collection of diaries kept by Baghdad resident J. M. Svoboda, from 1862 to 1908. The project offers a web version containing a side-by-side transcription of the original Arabic text and an English translation by Nowf Allawi, with annotation and one-click access to images of the original text. A print-on-demand version published by Newbook Digital Texts, edited by Walter G. Andrews and Nowf Allawi, is printed and distributed by the University of Washington Bookstore under the title “From Bagdad to Paris: 1897, Journal of a Journey to Europe by Land via Damascus and Beirut” (2013).

The Emma B. Andrews Diary Project

Emma B. Andrews is best remembered for her association with the millionaire lawyer turned archaeologist/art and antiquities collector, Theodore M. Davis. Traveling to Egypt with him between 1889 and 1912, she kept detailed journals of these voyages along the Nile, including his important yet under-reported excavations of 20 significant tombs in the Valley of the Kings. Emma provides a vital commentary on the archaeology and pioneering Egyptologists of the time. She paints a revealing picture of the lives of the colonial gentry and the cultural and scientific literati in Egypt at the dawn of the twentieth century. Her diaries are unpublished; the digitization and analysis of the 19 volumes will afford scholars and a general audience ready access to an important historical resource for the first time.

The Baki Project

The Baki Project will be a multi-year collaborative international project with the following broad goals:

To bring digital technologies to bear on the problems of dealing with large and complex manuscript traditions in non-Latin complex scripts;

To create digital tools or adopt existing tools for application to identifying and visualizing the history and evolution of a large manuscript tradition;

To develop methodologies for organizing, managing, and implementing a large scale collaborative manuscript editing project with many participants;

To model and test the above tools and methods by creating an exemplary edition of an exceptionally famous Ottoman poet.

Georgian Digital Text Collective

Dedicated to presenting Georgian literature and culture to a worldwide audience, the Georgian Digital Text Collective offers selected works of Georgian literature in dual- and /or tri-lingual format, thereby allowing non-Georgian speaking audiences an opportunity to appreciate the rich cultural heritage of this fascinating country. The site also includes images of Georgia, general resources about the country’s culture and history, as well as links to historical sources and information about the greater Black Sea Region.

The Latifi Project

The project will apply new digital tools and methods now under development at the University of Washington to the creation of a digital edition of the original 1546 version of the Tezkere (poet biographies) of Laṭīfī. The only modern edition of the Tezkere is based on a substantially rewritten version that appears in finished form only in 1574, some 8 years after the appearance of Āşıḳ Çelebi’s tezkere, Meşā’irü’ş-Şu’arā. In this context, the edition will fill a serious gap in published sources for the history of Ottoman literature and the development of Ottoman prose style. The project PI is also preparing for publication a digital stylistics study based on the manuscript history of the Latifi Tezkere.

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