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Previous Digital Coptic 2 Symposium and Workshop

On March 12-13 we hosted the Digital Coptic 2 Symposium and Workshop at Georgetown University, March 12-13, 2015. The full program is online. Day 1 featured presentations from scholars working in Coptic and/or Digital Humanities from around the world. Day 2 provided tutorials on Coptic SCRIPTORIUM along with discussions about future research. Watch the many videos of the presentations on our DC 2 YouTube channel along with reading the twitter backchannel at #copticdh.

(Oringally posted in March 2015 at http://copticscriptorium.org/)

Corpora and how to use ANNIS

June 11, 2015 / David Sriboonreuang / 0 Comments

Coptic SCRIPTORIUM provides Coptic texts for reading, analysis, and complex searches. For a full list of our text corpora, please click here. We have also added answers to who and what some people and terms mean on our main site. A video tutorial given by Amir Zeldes and Caroline T. Schroeder is also available on how to search our database using the tool ANNIS.

(Originally posted in December of 2014 at http://copticscriptorium.org/)

Digital Coptic workshop and symposium at Georgetown University

June 11, 2015 / David Sriboonreuang / 0 Comments

Coptic SCRIPTORIUM is hosting a second workshop and symposium on Digital Humanities and Coptic Studies on March 12-13, 2015 at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Program and Registration information is available.

(Previously posted in December 2014 on http://copticscriptorium.org/index.html)

Fall 2014 Release Notes

June 11, 2015 / David Sriboonreuang / 0 Comments

A new release of material has been added to http://www.copticscriptorium.org: more Sayings from the Coptic Apophthegmata Patrum, chapters 1 of Corinthians and additional chapters of the Gospel of Mark. Other release notes can be found here.

(Originally posted in Fall 2014 on http://www.copticscriptorium.org.)

Introducing the project texts and data model, and how to use ANNIS

June 10, 2015 / David Sriboonreuang / 0 Comments

To learn more about Coptic SCRIPTORIUM’s corpora, data model, and features, here is a video on how to use the tool ANNIS into the world of Coptic. Thanks goes to Caroline T. Schroeder for the video from her youtube channel.

http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZW6oWHbwQU

(Originally posted on copticscriptorium.org)

Previous Workshop on Digital and Computational Scholarship in the Coptic Langauge

June 10, 2015 / David Sriboonreuang / 0 Comments

Back in 2013 we hosted a workshop on digital research and scholarship in Coptic at Humboldt University. The program and presentations are available.

(Originally posted on copticscriptorium.org)

New material added: papyri

June 8, 2015 / David Sriboonreuang / 0 Comments

We’ve annotated and published in our search and visualization tool ANNIS two documentary papyri from papyri.info.

Click on the page icon next to the corpus name for a list of visualizations.

documentary papyri from papyri.info (Originally posted at copticscriptorium.org 5/26/15)

Releasing more Coptic Sayings

June 8, 2015 / David Sriboonreuang / 0 Comments

We added a couple more Sayings from the Coptic Sayings of the Desert Fathers. Try searching for the word “worm”!

To see a visualization of the manuscript text, click on the “diplomatic text” under the search results.

diplomatic transcription of an apophthegm from Sayings of the Desert Fathers

(Originally posted at https://twitter.com/copticscript on 5/26/15)

Our lightning round presentation at the NEH is now online

June 8, 2015 / David Sriboonreuang / 0 Comments

We gave a brief presentation about Coptic SCRIPTORIUM at the NEH Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors’ meeting in September. We’re at the 9:38 time marker. Video is from the NEHgov channel on youtube.

Releasing new corpora and newly translated corpora in multiple formats

June 8, 2015 / David Sriboonreuang / 0 Comments

All the recent corpora we’ve announced (papyri.info, Acephalous Work 22, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, etc.) can be downloaded as TEI XML, PAULA XML or relANNIS files from our GitHub repository. They can be queried in the search and visualization tool ANNIS. (Video introductions to ANNIS are here and here.) Also, If you find any errors in our data or want to add more annotations, please get in touch!