#الصحافة_العربية — Public Fediverse posts
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@tntype @dbellingradt @BiblioWingate @dohanian After running exiftools on a large number of digital facsimiles to compute average page dimensions and combining this ratio with the measured height of Arabic magazines found in library catalogues, it appears that page dimensions of 24.43 cm by 16 cm are somewhat close to Medium octavo after we account for some additional height caused by measuring the outside dimensions of bound library copies.
https://digitalcourage.social/@tillgrallert/115946913237198695
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A small Friday-evening project came to fruition. Analysing data on the dimensions of Arabic periodicals from #Wikidata, a quick and simple plot allows for a number of observations: Firstly, newspapers and magazines are of different sizes and the former tend to be significantly larger than the latter. This bestows confidence on our data set. Misclassification is seemingly rare, particularly for magazines. Secondly, the size of magazines is quite stable at around 24cm with a slight tendency towards larger heights in the 1920s. Thirdly, newspapers are of a much less consistent size with the majority of observations falling into the mid-thirties.
#PeriodicalStudies #الصحافة_العربية #MultilingualDH #DH #DigitalHumanities
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If you had the necessary resources (time and money) to digitise Arabic periodicals, one should probably start with this #SPARQL query to check #Wikidata for unique holdings: https://query-chest.toolforge.org/redirect/r9Gn5nKhkWUYgyYwOU08qAk64wWOQO4ycuCcsSi6Syc.
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Does anybody know anything about deduplication at the #InternetArchive? Quite frequently people upload the same files as independent items, which could be prevented by checking against checksums.
See, for example, https://archive.org/details/Om-Alqura, which seems to be an exact copy of https://archive.org/details/1320_20220730
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It is also interesting to see how people spend significant time and effort to download digital facsimiles from academic repositories, edit every image, and upload them to the Internet Archive.
See, for example, scans of البلاغ الاسبوعي published in Cairo from 1926 onwards ( https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60578577 ). Scans of the copies held by the University of Tübingen are hosted by the University of Bonn: https://digitale-sammlungen.ulb.uni-bonn.de/ulbbnioa/periodical/pageview/7282062. Based on the position of tears and specks, I am pretty sure that these images are the source of https://archive.org/details/Elbalah-week/مجلة%20البلاغ%20الأسبوعي%20-%20العدد%20001/
#ArabPeriodicalStudies #الصحافة_العربية #remediation #digitisation
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While I thoroughly enjoy the wealth of old Arabic periodicals on the Internet Archive, I am also frustrated by the state of metadata. Why do people laboriously upload thousands of individual issues but provide nothing but the **one-word** title? Don’t they want the material to be found? Is there something else to it?
Take, for example, https://archive.org/details/al-masrah_202408, which is the only known digitised copy of المسرح, published by محمد عبد المجيد حلمي in Cairo from 1925 onwards. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124972737
#DigitalHumanities peeps and #Librarians, can you recommend publications on the state of the Internet Archive’s crowd-sourced metadata?
#الصحافة_العربية #ArabPeriodicalStudies #digipres #metadata #periodicalStudies
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I’ve just seen this fantastic work worth highlighting during #OAWeek: Somebody is uploading scans of Palestinian periodicals to the @internetarchive at scale: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Palestinian+Historical+Memory-%D8%B0%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A9+%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%86%22 . They even add metadata at the issue level!
#CulturalHeritage #الصحافة_العربية #Palestine #Gaza #ArabPeriodicalStudies #PeriodicalStudies
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I also wrote a #SPARQL query to see the linguistic composition of the periodical press until 1930 at all locations with titles published in languages of the Eastern Mediterranean: #Arabic, #Ottoman, #Armenian, #Coptic, #Greek, #Farsi, #Ladino, #Azerbaijani
As a table: https://query-chest.toolforge.org/redirect/iDOqXyQ6u8ciKSGCYUkEoS02maygCMy8EccoSa8yuWw
As a map with layers for each language, because sometimes geographic distribution is interesting: https://query-chest.toolforge.org/redirect/XvayrLG3RwUiau4MWWuUEkkuccWmusCSy4gO888Q489
#Wikidata #PeriodicalStudies #ArabPeriodicalStudies #الصحافة_العربية #Multilinguality #multilingualDH
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Of course a map is nice to have, but a simple table might often be the more useful thing. So I just wrote the #SPARQL to query #Wikidata for all Arabic periodicals published before 1930 with indicators whether there are known holdings and digitised collections. The table allows to quickly search for titles, years and places of publication.
As a boon to #multilingualDH, the language of results depends on your OS’s settings.
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Auch wenn Digitalität beim #DOT2026 eher marginalisiert wird, ist zu meiner Freude heute mein seit langem im Publikationsprozess steckender CLIO Guide zur Digitalisierung des Kulturerbes der Gesellschaften des Globalen Südens online gegangen. Wer etwas über die repräsentative Macht monolingualer Infrastrukturen, Zeichenkodierungen, Umschriften, Katalogen als historische Quelle, Schattenbibliotheken etc. etc. und das ganze auch noch am Beispiel arabischer Periodika erfahren möchte: https://doi.org/10.60693/p46s-8j72
#multilingualDH #epistemicViolence #characterEncoding #الصحافة_العربية
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Auch wenn Digitalität beim #DOT2026 eher marginalisiert wird, ist zu meiner Freude heute mein seit langem im Publikationsprozess steckender CLIO Guide zur Digitalisierung des Kulturerbes der Gesellschaften des Globalen Südens online gegangen. Wer etwas über die repräsentative Macht monolingualer Infrastrukturen, Zeichenkodierungen, Umschriften, Katalogen als historische Quelle, Schattenbibliotheken etc. etc. und das ganze auch noch am Beispiel arabischer Periodika erfahren möchte: https://doi.org/10.60693/p46s-8j72
#multilingualDH #epistemicViolence #characterEncoding #الصحافة_العربية
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Auch wenn Digitalität beim #DOT2026 eher marginalisiert wird, ist zu meiner Freude heute mein seit langem im Publikationsprozess steckender CLIO Guide zur Digitalisierung des Kulturerbes der Gesellschaften des Globalen Südens online gegangen. Wer etwas über die repräsentative Macht monolingualer Infrastrukturen, Zeichenkodierungen, Umschriften, Katalogen als historische Quelle, Schattenbibliotheken etc. etc. und das ganze auch noch am Beispiel arabischer Periodika erfahren möchte: https://doi.org/10.60693/p46s-8j72
#multilingualDH #epistemicViolence #characterEncoding #الصحافة_العربية
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Auch wenn Digitalität beim #DOT2026 eher marginalisiert wird, ist zu meiner Freude heute mein seit langem im Publikationsprozess steckender CLIO Guide zur Digitalisierung des Kulturerbes der Gesellschaften des Globalen Südens online gegangen. Wer etwas über die repräsentative Macht monolingualer Infrastrukturen, Zeichenkodierungen, Umschriften, Katalogen als historische Quelle, Schattenbibliotheken etc. etc. und das ganze auch noch am Beispiel arabischer Periodika erfahren möchte: https://doi.org/10.60693/p46s-8j72
#multilingualDH #epistemicViolence #characterEncoding #الصحافة_العربية
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Auch wenn Digitalität beim #DOT2026 eher marginalisiert wird, ist zu meiner Freude heute mein seit langem im Publikationsprozess steckender CLIO Guide zur Digitalisierung des Kulturerbes der Gesellschaften des Globalen Südens online gegangen. Wer etwas über die repräsentative Macht monolingualer Infrastrukturen, Zeichenkodierungen, Umschriften, Katalogen als historische Quelle, Schattenbibliotheken etc. etc. und das ganze auch noch am Beispiel arabischer Periodika erfahren möchte: https://doi.org/10.60693/p46s-8j72
#multilingualDH #epistemicViolence #characterEncoding #الصحافة_العربية
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I just added holding information for 100+ Arabic newspapers and magazines published before 1930 from the National Library of Israel to #Wikidata (many are marked as belonging “to the Absentee Property Collection (AP)” in the MARC files from the catalogue and thus a direct result of the #Nakba ). This significantly extends the coverage of pre-Nakba Palestinian periodicals and will allow more people to discover the rich cultural heritage of #Palestine.
URL for a map of all known holdings of pre-Nakba periodicals in Palestine: https://query-chest.toolforge.org/redirect/FastY9YqoKky0AAggWsk4mMeQW284SIOkIGGiEEMQKd
For a documentation of the process and our larger project see my ‘Adding Every Arabic Periodical Published Before 1930 to Wikidata: Moving the Scholarly Crowd-Sourcing Project Jarāʾid to the Digital Commons’. Transformations: A DARIAH Journal 1: Workflows (July 2025): 1–39. https://doi.org/10.46298/transformations.14749.
#PeriodicalStudies #SPARQL #ArabPeriodicalStudies #الصحافة_العربية
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Adding Every Arabic Periodical Published Before 1930 to Wikidata: Moving the Scholarly Crowd-Sourcing Project Jarāʾid to the Digital Commons by @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy #Arabic #الصحافة_العربية #DigitalHumanities #LinkedOpenData
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I finally managed to write up some of the thoughts that went into contributing the bibliographic information on Arabic periodicals and their known holdings to #Wikidata. I have published a preprint to Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/14112648. Feel free to share and to comment under this post.
#PeriodicalStudies #MultilingualDH #ArabicPeriodicals #Arabic #Ottoman #Mahjar #الصحافة_العربية #DigitalHumanities #dh #LinkedOpenData
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I finally managed to write up some of the thoughts that went into contributing the bibliographic information on Arabic periodicals and their known holdings to #Wikidata. I have published a preprint to Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/14112648. Feel free to share and to comment under this post.
#PeriodicalStudies #MultilingualDH #ArabicPeriodicals #Arabic #Ottoman #Mahjar #الصحافة_العربية #DigitalHumanities #dh #LinkedOpenData
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I finally managed to write up some of the thoughts that went into contributing the bibliographic information on Arabic periodicals and their known holdings to #Wikidata. I have published a preprint to Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/14112648. Feel free to share and to comment under this post.
#PeriodicalStudies #MultilingualDH #ArabicPeriodicals #Arabic #Ottoman #Mahjar #الصحافة_العربية #DigitalHumanities #dh #LinkedOpenData
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I finally managed to write up some of the thoughts that went into contributing the bibliographic information on Arabic periodicals and their known holdings to #Wikidata. I have published a preprint to Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/14112648. Feel free to share and to comment under this post.
#PeriodicalStudies #MultilingualDH #ArabicPeriodicals #Arabic #Ottoman #Mahjar #الصحافة_العربية #DigitalHumanities #dh #LinkedOpenData
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I finally managed to write up some of the thoughts that went into contributing the bibliographic information on Arabic periodicals and their known holdings to #Wikidata. I have published a preprint to Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/14112648. Feel free to share and to comment under this post.
#PeriodicalStudies #MultilingualDH #ArabicPeriodicals #Arabic #Ottoman #Mahjar #الصحافة_العربية #DigitalHumanities #dh #LinkedOpenData
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My dive into #SPARQL and the #Wikidata environment continues and I just discovered some of the wonderful tools hosted on https://toolforge.org/.
Here is a map of all periodicals published in #Palestine (defined by a rectangular bounding box) before 1930: https://w.wiki/9u$o. Items on the map link to #Reasonator (https://reasonator.toolforge.org/), which provides an improved view of linked data available from Wikidata.
#PeriodicalStudies #الصحافة_العربية #MultilingualDH #DH #DigitalHumanities
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My dive into #SPARQL and the #Wikidata environment continues and I just discovered some of the wonderful tools hosted on https://toolforge.org/.
Here is a map of all periodicals published in #Palestine (defined by a rectangular bounding box) before 1930: https://w.wiki/9u$o. Items on the map link to #Reasonator (https://reasonator.toolforge.org/), which provides an improved view of linked data available from Wikidata.
#PeriodicalStudies #الصحافة_العربية #MultilingualDH #DH #DigitalHumanities
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My dive into #SPARQL and the #Wikidata environment continues and I just discovered some of the wonderful tools hosted on https://toolforge.org/.
Here is a map of all periodicals published in #Palestine (defined by a rectangular bounding box) before 1930: https://w.wiki/9u$o. Items on the map link to #Reasonator (https://reasonator.toolforge.org/), which provides an improved view of linked data available from Wikidata.
#PeriodicalStudies #الصحافة_العربية #MultilingualDH #DH #DigitalHumanities
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My dive into #SPARQL and the #Wikidata environment continues and I just discovered some of the wonderful tools hosted on https://toolforge.org/.
Here is a map of all periodicals published in #Palestine (defined by a rectangular bounding box) before 1930: https://w.wiki/9u$o. Items on the map link to #Reasonator (https://reasonator.toolforge.org/), which provides an improved view of linked data available from Wikidata.
#PeriodicalStudies #الصحافة_العربية #MultilingualDH #DH #DigitalHumanities
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My dive into #SPARQL and the #Wikidata environment continues and I just discovered some of the wonderful tools hosted on https://toolforge.org/.
Here is a map of all periodicals published in #Palestine (defined by a rectangular bounding box) before 1930: https://w.wiki/9u$o. Items on the map link to #Reasonator (https://reasonator.toolforge.org/), which provides an improved view of linked data available from Wikidata.
#PeriodicalStudies #الصحافة_العربية #MultilingualDH #DH #DigitalHumanities
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I'm rather new to SPARQL and equal parts smitten by the power of built-in visualisations and frustrated by the state of examples and documentation of more complex queries for those of us not overtly familiar with with other query languages.
Anyhow, if you are interested in the most popular titles of Arabic periodicals until 1930, here they are: https://w.wiki/9nxE.
TL;DR: Reform (الاصلاح), Liberty (الحرية), The Nation (الوطن), The Morning (الصباح), Education (المعارف) take the crown.
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I am excited to share some brief news on the recent progress we made in pushing bibliographic data on all #Arabic #Periodicals published before 1930 and their editors to #Wikidata: we did it!
With a bit of SPARQL one can now browse our data set from https://projectjaraid.github.io/ as a graph (https://tinyurl.com/jaraid-graph), table (https://w.wiki/9rDP) or a map (https://w.wiki/9o3Z).
More detailed descriptions of our effort will follow in the form of blog posts (and potentially a longer thread).
Holding data beyond #HathiTrust, #OCLC and the German #ZDB have not been pushed yet.
#PeriodicalStudies #MultilingualDH #ArabicPeriodicals #Arabic #Ottoman #Mahjar #الصحافة_العربية #DigitalHumanities #dh
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I am excited to share some brief news on the recent progress we made in pushing bibliographic data on all #Arabic #Periodicals published before 1930 and their editors to #Wikidata: we did it!
With a bit of SPARQL one can now browse our data set from https://projectjaraid.github.io/ as a graph (https://tinyurl.com/jaraid-graph), table (https://w.wiki/9rDP) or a map (https://w.wiki/9o3Z).
More detailed descriptions of our effort will follow in the form of blog posts (and potentially a longer thread).
Holding data beyond #HathiTrust, #OCLC and the German #ZDB have not been pushed yet.
#PeriodicalStudies #MultilingualDH #ArabicPeriodicals #Arabic #Ottoman #Mahjar #الصحافة_العربية #DigitalHumanities #dh
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I am excited to share some brief news on the recent progress we made in pushing bibliographic data on all #Arabic #Periodicals published before 1930 and their editors to #Wikidata: we did it!
With a bit of SPARQL one can now browse our data set from https://projectjaraid.github.io/ as a graph (https://tinyurl.com/jaraid-graph), table (https://w.wiki/9rDP) or a map (https://w.wiki/9o3Z).
More detailed descriptions of our effort will follow in the form of blog posts (and potentially a longer thread).
Holding data beyond #HathiTrust, #OCLC and the German #ZDB have not been pushed yet.
#PeriodicalStudies #MultilingualDH #ArabicPeriodicals #Arabic #Ottoman #Mahjar #الصحافة_العربية #DigitalHumanities #dh
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I am excited to share some brief news on the recent progress we made in pushing bibliographic data on all #Arabic #Periodicals published before 1930 and their editors to #Wikidata: we did it!
With a bit of SPARQL one can now browse our data set from https://projectjaraid.github.io/ as a graph (https://tinyurl.com/jaraid-graph), table (https://w.wiki/9rDP) or a map (https://w.wiki/9o3Z).
More detailed descriptions of our effort will follow in the form of blog posts (and potentially a longer thread).
Holding data beyond #HathiTrust, #OCLC and the German #ZDB have not been pushed yet.
#PeriodicalStudies #MultilingualDH #ArabicPeriodicals #Arabic #Ottoman #Mahjar #الصحافة_العربية #DigitalHumanities #dh
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I am excited to share some brief news on the recent progress we made in pushing bibliographic data on all #Arabic #Periodicals published before 1930 and their editors to #Wikidata: we did it!
With a bit of SPARQL one can now browse our data set from https://projectjaraid.github.io/ as a graph (https://tinyurl.com/jaraid-graph), table (https://w.wiki/9rDP) or a map (https://w.wiki/9o3Z).
More detailed descriptions of our effort will follow in the form of blog posts (and potentially a longer thread).
Holding data beyond #HathiTrust, #OCLC and the German #ZDB have not been pushed yet.
#PeriodicalStudies #MultilingualDH #ArabicPeriodicals #Arabic #Ottoman #Mahjar #الصحافة_العربية #DigitalHumanities #dh