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Earlier today, the Coptic Scriptorium project hosted an online workshop/webinar on searching text and annotations in our database (ANNIS). The video is now on YouTube. The cheat-sheet with an online tutorial that Dr. Zeldes shows in this video is on our website. If you watch the video, we’d also appreciate your feedback in this brief […]
Digital Humanities, Scriptorium, Teaching
Learning and Teaching Coptic with Coptic Scriptorium’s Resources
Today I had the pleasure of giving a presentation at the annual St. Shenouda Society-UCLA Conference of Coptic Studies. My talk illustrates various ways the Coptic Scriptorium project’s texts and tools can help Coptic language learners become more proficient in Coptic. Whether you are a student in a course, an instructor, or someone wanting to […]
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) […]
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 […]
We are hiring for a summer part time position! The full description is below, but the highlights are: must know Coptic 10-20 hours per week remote work supervised by Prof. Caroline T. Schroeder at the University of Oklahoma position begins May 15 or as soon thereafter as the hiring paperwork etc. can be completed send […]
Digital Humanities, Scriptorium
Coptic Scriptorium Awarded an NEH Grant to Expand Corpora and Add More Dialects
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]