We are pleased to announce the latest release of data from Coptic Scriptorium, version 4.1.0. The new release adds new Coptic texts and annotation additions, underscored by the application of named and non-named entity annotation to our New Testament corpus.
In total, we released approximately 40,000 tokens of manually edited text in 17 documents from new works, as well as adding material to already existing works. The new material, including more digitized data courtesy of the Marcion project, the Kyprianos Magical Text Database, and other scholars, includes:
- Life of John the Kalybites, parts 1 and 2 (annotations by Lance Martin, Tamara, Siuda, and Caroline T. Schroeder)
- Mysteries of John the Evangelist, parts 1 and 2 (Mitchell Abrams, Lance Martin, Tamara Siuda, Caroline T. Schroeder)
- Pseudo-Ephrem, The Asketicon of Apa Ephrem, parts 1 and 2 (Lance Martin and Caroline T. Schroeder)
- Pseudo-Timothy of Alexandria Discourses, Discourse on Abbaton, parts 1 and 2 (Elizabeth Davidson, Lance Martin, Caroline T. Schroeder, and Amir Zeldes)
We are especially excited to announce the first release of several magical papyri and an ostracon on the Coptic Scriptorium platform in collaboration with the Kyprianos team at the University of Würzburg:
- Magical Texts (Korshi Dosoo, Edward O. D. Love, Markéta Preininger, Lance Martin, Caroline T. Schroeder, and Amir Zeldes)
Expansions and Improvements of existing corpora:
- Apa Johannes Canons (Diliana Atanassova, Caroline T. Schroeder, Lance Martin, and Amir Zeldes)
- Apophthegmata Patrum (Marina Ghaly, Christine Luckritz Marquis, Caroline T. Schroeder)
We have extended our semi-automatic entity annotation coverage to encompass our New Testament material (over 248,000 tokens). Entity annotations, like our other annotations, were added to these specific corpora automatically and include:
- The classification of all non-pronominal references to people, places and other entities into 10 entity categories
- Entity linking:
- Linking of all named entities which have corresponding Wikipedia articles to their respective Wikipedia entries, including geo-location information where available
This addition complements the existing named and non-named entity annotations of our entire collections of Coptic corpora.
We would also like to thank individual contributors (which you can always find in the ‘annotation’ metadata for each document), each of whom put in a colossal amount of work, and the Marcion and Kyprianos projects who shared their data with us, as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities for supporting us. We are continuing to create more data and tools. Please let us know if you have any feedback!
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