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Feb 22, 2017 Introduction to Plain Text Workflows and Sustainable Publishing
Oct 12, 2016 The difficulty of establishing publication dates for books from late Ottoman *Bilād al-Shām*
May 20, 2016 Essay published in edited volume 'Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies'
Apr 22, 2016 Archive.sakhrit.co's failure as a source for digitsed imagery of Arabic journals
Jan 29, 2016 The historian's puzzle: various differences between copies of printed periodicals that ought to be similar. The case of *Dūstur*
Nov 13, 2015 *Majallat al-Muqtabas*: one of the most important journals of late Ottoman *Bilād al-Shām* as open, collaborative, scholarly digital edition
Nov 12, 2015 Middle Eastern Graffiti
Jul 20, 2015 Academic writing in plain text: useful resources
Feb 23, 2015 Überlegungen und Material für den Editionsworkshop im März 2015 am OIB
Apr 18, 2014 Thesis: German abstract
Jan 19, 2014 The puzzle continues II: in addition to *al-kabīr* and *al-ṣaghīr*, *al-Muqtaṭaf* published slightly different editions in Beirut and Kairo
Jan 4, 2014 New XSLT stylesheets for calendar conversion on Github
Aug 19, 2013 The puzzle continues: *al-Muqtaṭaf* was printed in two different and unmarked editions
Jul 4, 2013 XSLT functions for converting calendars
May 4, 2013 Historical Currency Converter
Jan 19, 2013 Solution to the historian's puzzle?
Jan 12, 2013 Update to the historian's puzzle
Dec 29, 2012 The historian's puzzle: various differences between copies of printed periodicals that ought to be similar
Sep 2, 2012 Project Jaraid: our new chronology of nineteenth-century Arabic periodicals is online
Mar 30, 2012 Digitised books, newspapers, and maps at Düsseldorf
Aug 23, 2011 Digitised German newspapers
Apr 2, 2011 Ottoman newspapers and periodicals online for all of us
Mar 31, 2011 Ottoman yearbooks online … for the lucky few (and the ones with US IPs)
Mar 27, 2011 Current projects