Tag: digital humanities
Please join us in celebrating the release of the latest version 6.3.0 of the Coptic Scriptorium corpora! We now have a total of over 2,380,000 words. This release provides new and updated data: As always, we are grateful to our collaborators and contributors who have made this release possible, particularly Caroline T. Schroeder, Amir Zeldes, […]
We are pleased to announce the release of version 6.2.0 of the Coptic Scriptorium data! Our corpora now total 2,375,875 words. This release provides significant new annotated data in both the Bohairic and Sahidic Dialects: We are grateful to our collaborators and contributors who have made this release possible, particularly Caroline T. Schroeder, Amir Zeldes, Nicholas Wagner, […]
We are pleased to announce the release of version 6.2.0 of the Coptic Scriptorium data! Our corpora now total 2,375,875 words. This release provides significant new annotated data in both the Bohairic and Sahidic Dialects: We are grateful to our collaborators and contributors who have made this release possible, particularly Caroline T. Schroeder, Amir Zeldes, Nicholas Wagner, […]
Since 2014, Coptic Scriptorium has benefitted from funding from the United States government through the National Endowment for the Humanities. Our natural language processing tools, digitized and annotated corpora, and other resources were only possible with this funding. A joint grant from the NEH and the German DFG supported the collaborations that produced the Coptic […]
The Coptic Scriptorium team is deeply grateful to the St Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society for its recent grant to our project. This generous gift was made possible by donations from many members of the Society. We especially thank Hany Takla, President of the Society, for his ongoing leadership and collaboration with our project. The […]
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 […]