Coptic Scriptorium is hiring one more staff member, starting in September 2023. This position runs through at least August 2024 and can be renewed potentially up through July 2026. It is part-time (on average 15 hours/week). Full details in the ad attached!
Thank you to the National Endowment for the Humanities (Preservation and Access Division) and the University of Oklahoma Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Partnerships for the funding and support for this position!!
Coptic Scriptorium is hiring for a 1-year, full-time Postdoctoral Fellow to work with us on expanding the number of Coptic texts we have available and on annotating those texts.
Full details are in the job ad. This position is remote with virtual meetings and occasional travel to the University of Oklahoma or Georgetown University or other work sites (travel funding covered by OU).
If you are considering applying but have a dissertation defense/completion date firmly set during August (rather than prior to August 1), we can consider your application; please note in your letter your specific timetable, and if we decide to interview you we can discuss the timetable in the interview.
If you applied for the summer position previously advertised and would like to apply for this position, as well, please do send a new full application for this position.
We will begin reviewing applications next week and will conduct virtual interviews either at the end of this month or very early June. This position is funded jointly by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Oklahoma Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Partnerships.
We are hiring for a summer part time position! The full description is below, but the highlights are:
In addition, because of the nature of the position, we can only hire someone who is in the US and eligible to work in the US.
We will begin reviewing applications May 8.
This is perfect for a grad student, recent PhD, or part-time academic looking for some extra income over the summer
Busy this summer but wish you could apply? We will be hiring for one or two more positions to start in August or September. Watch this space!
The Coptic Scriptorium team is honored to have been awarded an NEH Preservation and Access/Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Implementation Grant in the amount of $349,887. This award will fund a 3-year project Expanding Coptic Digital Online Collections. You can read the press release and list of awarded grants on the NEH site. This initiative will enable Coptic Scriptorium to improve the user experience, to expand our digital database of richly annotated texts in the Sahidic dialect, and to develop natural language tools and searchable, annotated, digitized corpora for additional dialects, including Bohairic. Caroline T. Schroeder (University of Oklahoma) is PI, and Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University) is co-PI. The team also includes Rebecca Krawiec (Canisius College), Christine Luckritz Marquis (Union Presbyterian Seminary), and Hany Takla (St. Shenouda Society), as well as a diverse advisory board. We thank our whole team past and present for the work that led to this stage, and we are grateful to the National Endowment for the Humanities for their ongoing support.
We are pleased to announce release 4.4.0 of Coptic Scriptorium! Our data now includes over 1,267,000 tokens of searchable, linguistically analyzed Coptic data from dozens of ancient Coptic works (an increase of almost 100,000 tokens from the previous release). We are very grateful to all of our collaborators and contributors, without whom this project could not function.
This release corrects a large number of consistency errors identified in our existing data, and also adds some new documents:
We would like to thank the Marcion Project for making the underlying digitized text of Pistis Sophia available, and all of the annotators for their hard work. Tamara Siuda, Rebecca Krawiec, Philippe Zaher, and Lance Martin contributed, in addition to Amir and Carrie. As our current DHAG grant ends, we would like to give special thanks to Lance, who has been working as our DH specialist on the project since 2019, for doing an amazing job of keeping track of all the data and the various tasks he’s been in charge of over the past three years!
As with all releases, raw machine readable data for all corpora can be found, including morphological and syntactic analysis, as well as named entity recognition and entity linking, on our GitHub repository, in a variety of popular formats:
https://github.com/copticscriptorium/corpora
You can also search for complex linguistic annotations in the data using our ANNIS server – please see our new tutorial here to get started with some query tips and a helpful cheat sheet:
https://copticscriptorium.org/ANNIS_tutorial
We hope this release will be useful and look forward to the next one as always!
After our recent server outage, we’ve been re-installing our tools and software. Some of our services are now available at new URLs.
The ANNIS database is now at https://annis.copticscriptorium.org/annis/scriptorium
Our Sahidic Coptic natural language processing tools are at https://tools.copticscriptorium.org/coptic-nlp
Our GitDox annotation tool is at https://tools.copticscriptorium.org/gitdox/scriptorium
The Coptic Dictionary online is still at https://coptic-dictionary.org, and our tool for browsing and reading texts is still at https://data.copticscriptorium.org
Thanks for your patience!
Thank you to Amir and the staff at Georgetown University. Most of our public applications, such as the ANNIS database and the Coptic Dictionary Online, are back in service.
We are sorry to report that the server that hosts the Coptic Dictionary Online and Coptic Scriptorium’s ANNIS database are down. (Likewise some of the NLP tools and internal tools like GitDox are down.)
We are working on fixing the problem, but for now we do not have a timeline for when they will be up and running.
In the meantime reading and browsing texts at http://data.copticscriptorium.org still work.
Thank you for your patience! We will let you know when the systems are up again.
The opening lines of Pistis Sophia
It is our pleasure to announce release 4.3.0 of Coptic Scriptorium corpora, which currently cover over 1,175,000 tokens of searchable, linguistically analyzed Coptic data from dozens of ancient Coptic works. New in this release:
Corrections and additional annotations:
The newly released material encompasses over 57,000 tokens of semi-automatically annotated data. We would like to give special thanks to the Marcion Project for making much of the underlying digitized text available, and the annotators whose hard work has made this release possible. As with all releases, raw machine readable data for all corpora can be found, including morphological and syntactic analysis, as well as named entity recognition and entity linking, on our GitHub repository, in a variety of popular formats:
https://github.com/copticscriptorium/corpora
We hope this release will be useful and look forward to the next one!
Martijn Linssen, an independent researcher, has been working on the Gospel of Thomas for some time and recently published a stand-alone “interactive Coptic-English translation” of the Gospel of Thomas on his Academia.edu site. The Coptic is linked to entries in the online Coptic Dictionary! We invite you to check it out!
We are always excited to see what kind of work people are doing with our project. Please get in touch if you’ve been using the dictionary or any of Coptic Scriptorium’s tools, corpora, annotations, etc., in your work!
The online dictionary is part of the KELLIA collaboration between Coptic Scriptorium (Georgetown University and the University of Oklahoma), the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy, the Goettingen Academy, the Free University in Berlin, and Goettingen University.
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