Gö U and the Academy are sponsoring a series of lectures on Digital Textual Coptic Studies. Full details at the link. Talk by yours truly and Amir Zeldes from @copticscript.bsky.social tomorrow at 4:15 pm Central European time, 10:15 am US Eastern time
#ThanksBrett for your central role in building up the most exciting and generous academic field of the last 25 years! The office of digital humanities was been a tremendously positive force. @brettbobley.bsky.social
Antiquity friends, if you've used Perseus Digital Lib, @syriaca.bsky.social, @copticscript.bsky.social , Pleiades, or other digital resources funded by @neh-odh.bsky.social please help #ThanksBrett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social director of ODH who's retiring today. Reply or post w/ #ThanksBrett
We wouldn't be here if it weren't for @brettbobley.bsky.social 's forward-thinking, strategic-thinking, in founding @neh-odh.bsky.social #ThanksBrett
This project would not exist if it hadn't been for an @neh-odh.bsky.social @nehgov.bsky.social Institute at Tufts+Perseus Digital Library
//Coptic Reading Group//
Meets Mondays @ 10:00am Atlanta, GA | 5:00pm Cairo | 4:00pm Amsterdam/Zurich | 3:00pm London | 7:00am Seattle (sorry!)
Reading Martyrdom of Victor via annotated text @copticscript.bsky.social
Picking up 5/12 Part 6 Chapter 59: data.copticscriptorium.org/texts/victor...
Happy Friday everyone! Do you want to help keep ancient language resources online and open access? Coptic Scriptorium has a new page all about how you can support the project after the NEH terminations. We list all our donors -- thank you so much!
copticscriptorium.org/donate
Thank you everyone who has shared this, donated, expressed support. I should start getting lists of donors to the University of Oklahoma fund next week; I promise I'll reach out individually to everyone. Also will talk to St. Shenouda Society more next week. TY so much! And it's not too late :)
Here some of Coptic Scriptorium’s next steps in the wake of the NEH mass cancellations. It includes ways to give, if you have the capacity blog.copticscriptorium.org
⬇️ Happening today @ 10:00am UTC+4 and 4:00pm UTC+2 ⬇️
Picking up at a really juicy part, Chapter 50, vs. 10 of Part 6
Link to text via @copticscript.bsky.social: data.copticscriptorium.org/texts/victor...
Coptic Scriptorium @copticscript.bsky.social has benefitted from many rounds of NEH funding. Very little of what you see today would have been possible without it. We use a lot of the funding to pay people to work on the textual data and annotations +
Unfortunately today @copticscript.bsky.social received a notice that our NEH grant has been cancelled. Please be assured that we are not pulling down our sites! We hope to have more information soon as we figure out our next steps
The whole Coptic Scriptorium team expresses our appreciation to the St. Shenouda Society for a gift that will go toward digitizing and annotating more Bohairic literature
You can also read documents in various formats at data.copticscriptorium.org Check it out and let us know what you think!
We have added more Bohairic Coptic! And we have some new-to-us public domain editions of Coptic that our postdoc last year Dr. Lydia Bremer-McCollum OCR'd, using OCR models she trained. Check out our cheat sheet for how to query the database here copticscriptorium.org/ANNIS_tutorial +
We are proud to announce our latest release of richly annotated textual data! Our corpora now have over 2 million words, annotated for part of speech, syntax, entitites, and much much more +
Then tomorrow Dr LBM and Dr @ctschroeder.bsky.social present on Dr LBM’s work building models for Coptic optical character recognition in the SBL digital humanities session S25-214 at 1:50 #sblaar24
At 5:35 Dr Lydia Bremer McCollum speaks on The Un/Real Lives of P.Louvre E 11036B in session #sblaar24 S24-307-11 +
Thrilled that both our postdoctoral researchers are presenting on their individual research projects at #sblaar24. First up Dr Nicholas Wagner on Revisiting the Marginalia in the Washington Manuscript of the Minor Prophets at 5 in S24-332-06. +
We @copticscript.bsky.social plan a big release of more annotated textual data later this month. More Bohairic, but also more Sahidic from public domain editions that our postdoc last year OCR'd. We'll talk a bit more about OCR at SBL-AAR, but +
Hello hello! We've posted the video of our session to YouTube. If you couldn't make it live, check it out!
You can check your timezones here. Whether you have never used Coptic Scriptorium before or want some tips on how to leverage the more advanced querying features of our database, this webinar will have info for you. It will be run by Amir Zeldes & @ctschroeder.bsky.social
We will hold an online workshop Tuesday July 16 at 12 noon Eastern (USA) time on searching and querying our database of richly annotated Coptic literature. All are welcome! Register here+:
Coptic Scriptorium is conducting a user survey to help us understand how people use online resources.
If you have ever used any online or digital resources related to Coptic language or literature ever, we want to hear from you. Thank you! We'll use the results to help improve our project.
The @copticscript.bsky.social team is at #MSUGlobalDH. I'll be giving a lightning talk in a few minutes in the Decolonization in Practice session that examines how difficult decolonization is. Our postdoc Lydia Bremer-McCollum has a poster on Coptic OCR. Livestream www.youtube.com/live/m3oGWxX...
Coptic Scriptorium is conducting a user survey to help us understand how people use online resources.
If you have ever used any online or digital resources related to Coptic language or literature ever, we want to hear from you. Thank you! We'll use the results to help improve our project.
It never ceases to amaze me what a useful research tool @copticscript.bsky.social is.
I suspected that #Coptic can't reiterate certain grammar categories, and I was able to quickly search for an example word appearing within <3 words from itself.
No directly adjacent tokens!
#Egyptology
#LangSky
It's not too late to sign up for Coptic Scriptorium's Coptic next reading group! Next up is the book of Ruth!
