January 2014 Coptic SCRIPTORIUM release notes
We’ve released some additional TEI XML files for our SCRIPTORIUM corpora at http://coptic.pacific.edu (backup site http://www.carrieschroeder.com/scriptorium). All the TEI files have been lightly...
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Coptic SCRIPTORIUM is pleased to announce a new release of data and an update on our project. Please visit our site at coptic.pacific.edu (backup at www.carrieschroeder.com/scriptorium). We’ve...
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2 NEH Grants to support Coptic SCRIPTORIUM
The Coptic SCRIPTORIUM project is pleased to announce that we have been awarded two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. A grant from the Office of Digital Humanities will support...
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Tagging Shenoute
By Caroline T. Schroeder & Amir Zeldes Schroeder presented this paper at the annual meeting of the North American Patristics Society in Chicago, Illinois, on May 24, 2014. This post is a very...
View ArticleDigitizing the Dead and Dismembered: Presentation at DH2014 in Lausanne
We’ll be presenting at DH2014 in Lausanne, Switzerland, on July 10, 2014. “Digitizing the Dead and Dismembered: DH Technologies for the Study of Coptic Texts” The abstract is below (and at the DH2014...
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Fall 2014 release: more texts, more standardization
We’ve got a new release of material at www.copticscriptorium.org. New stuff: Additional texts: more Sayings from the Coptic Apophthegmata Patrum chapters of 1 Corinthians additional chapters of the...
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My digital future
This fall, as I have been trying to finish up my book project, Monks and Their Children, I have been asked more than once: What’s your next project? When I start describing copticscriptorium.org, I...
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First foray into topic modeling
I spent two weeks at DHSI this year. Week 2 I took Liz Losh’s and Jacque Wernimont’s Feminist DH, which was incredible and I highly recommend to everyone. Check out the #femdh stream on Twitter for...
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A Martyr Is a Witness
Sinclair, Stéfan and Geoffrey Rockwell. “Voyant Tools: Reveal Your Texts.” Voyant. 31 Aug. 2015 <http://voyant-tools.org/> In my Introduction to Digital Humanities course, my students are...
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Coptic SCRIPTORIUM news now on its own site
Back when we were a two-person show, Coptic SCRIPTORIUM (er, I) posted release updates and news here on this blog. Now Coptic SCRIPTORIUM has its own blog. Check it out.
View ArticleDigital pedagogy and student knowledge production
The past two weeks in my Introduction to Digital Humanities course, students have been using the open-source content management system Omeka to create online exhibits related to the early Christian...
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Maps with CartoDB and Tableau
Our unit in Intro DH right now is on mapping. In class we’ll be working on creating maps with Palladio. We also had a preliminary introduction to data, tables, and maps by experimenting with Google...
View ArticleDear SBL: A Paywall Will Bring Neither Prestige nor Progress
The Bryn Mawr Classical Review and the Review of Biblical Literature (RBL) are my first stops for information about new or new-to-me books in biblical studies or late antiquity. I do not work at an...
View ArticleSBL, RBL, and thanks
I sent my letter in to the RBL and SBL last night. Thank you so much to everyone who read it and shared it. I am especially grateful to folks like Rebecca Lesses, Chuck Jones, Fred Tappenden and others...
View ArticleRBL, SBL, and the future of digital scholarship
I had a long phone conversation Wednesday morning with John Kutsko, executive director of the Society of Biblical Literature, about my letter regarding the decision to make the Review of Biblical...
View ArticleCoptic and Syriac on the early WWW
I’m working now on an article about early Coptic and Syriac on the web. Websites from the 1990s and very early 2000s. I’m interested in how these sites functioned as digital cultural heritage sites...
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The Nefertiti Hack: Digital Repatriation or Theft?
Last week, news circulated widely that two artists (Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles) had surreptitiously scanned the bust of Nefertiti in the Neues Museum in Berlin and publicly, freely released...
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On Palmyra and 3D Modeling Cultural Heritage in the Middle East
Over the past few months, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the relationship between academic scholarship and the atrocities of war. In particular the role of digital scholarship: its potential...
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Mary Had an Arduino Kit…
My first day in Physical Computing and Desktop Fabrication (yesterday) at DHSI involved playing around with an Arduino kit — basically a little computer board you can add lots of components to to make...
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Whose heritage are we remixing?
This past spring, I purchased a small 3d printer with the goal of experimenting with it to understand 3d fabrication a bit better before taking the Physical Computing and Desktop Fabrication class at...
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