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Researchers
E-mail: suphan@nyu.edu
Suphan Kirmizialtın
New York University Abu Dhabi
History Department
Suphan Kirmizialtin is a historian of the Ottoman Middle East. She received her PhD in History from the University of Texas, Austin where she subsequently worked as a lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies. Her research interests center around the intersection of gender and modernization in the Middle East within the specific context of the Ottoman modernization project. She also studies the emergence of women’s print media in Ottoman lands and its contribution to the creation of a civil public space in the Empire. Her current research focuses on the text recognition and textual analysis of historical archives as well as digital crowdsourcing projects in cultural heritage. Her most recent study on the HTR applications for Ottoman Turkish entails the automated transcription of Ottoman Turkish print texts to modern Turkish. She applies the same technology to British Indian Office documents with the goal of preparing this corpus for higher-order text analysis.
Fatma Aladag
Institute of Population and Social Research
Marmara University
E-mail: fatma.aladag@marmara.edu.tr
Dr. Fatma Aladağ is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Population and Social Research and Director of the Humanities DataLab. She received her bachelor’s degree from the Department of History at Istanbul Şehir University and completed her master’s degree in the same university’s History program with a thesis titled “Cities and Administrative Divisions of the Ottoman Empire in the Early 16th Century: A Case Study for the Application of Digital History to Ottoman Studies.” She earned her PhD from Leipzig University in Germany, where her dissertation examined the street and architectural networks of late 19th-century Istanbul using Space Syntax analysis. She has published several academic works in connection with these studies. Aladağ has held internship and research assistant positions at Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Oxford. She has also served as a researcher and project coordinator in various digital humanities and cultural heritage projects, specializing in digital mapping, digitization, web development, and database design. Working extensively with Ottoman archival documents, she has developed expertise in AI-assisted text recognition, automated transcription using the TRANSKRIBUS platform, and TEI-based encoding of Ottoman Turkish texts. Her primary research interests include digital humanities, urban history, digital history, Ottoman history, and text analysis using natural language processing (NLP). She is also the founder and coordinator of the Digital Ottoman Studies Platform (www.digitalottomanstudies.com).
Elif Derin holds a BA in History from Istanbul Şehir University and an MA in Ottoman manuscript culture with a thesis titled "Manuscript Collections of Eunuchs in the Early Modern Ottoman Eunuchs". She is an expert in Ottoman manuscript culture and she continues to take part in related projects, like cataloging and examining Ottoman manuscript collections. In addition to her expertise in Ottoman manuscripts, she has a keen interest in digital humanities, particularly digital methods for encoding Ottoman texts. She continues to work as an editor on the Digital Ottoman Studies Platform.
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