PMI Blog & Project Updates

16 December 2020

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park (Roshan Institute-UMD) a Level III Digital Humanities Advancement Grant in the amount of $324,571 for the “Automatic Collation for Diversifying Corpora: Improving Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for Arabic-script Manuscripts”...

15 March 2017

At the invitation of the Mahmudabad family, Persian Manuscript Initiative (PMI) PI Matthew Thomas Miller traveled to India in January of this year to do a preliminary assessment of the Raja of Mahmudabad Palace Library manuscript collection. We are pleased report that this week work officially began on the Raja...

19 January 2017

The National Archive of Afghanistan (NAA) is in one of the most important repositories of Persian and Arabic manuscripts in the region. It is home to a large collection of high-value endangered manuscripts, including 6,550 manuscripts, 1,200 calligraphy and miniature sheets, and more than 70,000 historical documents. It contains priceless...

12 December 2016

Over the course of our 2-day workshop held at the University of Maryland, the Persian Manuscript Initiative—in Collaboration with the The Roshan Initiative in Persian Digital Humanities of the University of Maryland, College Park and the Perseids Project—hosted 24 scholars representing various institutions and technological backgrounds. Participants from universities such...

01 October 2016

We are excited to announce that we will be hosting a 2-day workshop called “Manuscripts in the 21st Century” at the University of Maryland, College Park, Nov. 4-5! The workshop will bring together technical specialists from the Perseids Project, Digital Latin Library, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (UPenn), Omeka, and...