KITAB: Knowledge, Information Technology, and the Arabic Book
KITAB: Knowledge, Information Technology, and the Arabic Book: Studying the formation and development of the written Arabic tradition with digital methods
KITAB provides a digital tool-box and a forum for discussions about
Arabic texts. We wish to empower users to explore Arabic texts in
completely new ways and to expand the frontiers of knowledge about one
of the world’s largest and most complex textual traditions.
We are leading with a tool that detects how authors copied from
previous works. Arabic authors frequently made use of past works,
cutting them into pieces and reconstituting them to address their own
outlooks and concerns. Now you can discover relationships between these
texts and also the profoundly intertextual circulatory systems in which
they sit.
Our most recent work has involved gathering statistics on such reuse
across the tradition. This includes the extent and precision of reuse,
and where it does and does not occur. We are also developing new
visualisations that show the relationships between authors, books, and
the ideas that they contain. Equally importantly, we are building the
corpus of texts upon which our research is based, and making use of our
recent and pioneering work on Optical Character Recognition...
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