We’re very excited to announce a new collaboration with the Coptic SCRIPTORIUM
project. As many of you will know, Coptic SCRIPTORIUM is a
collaborative project which digitises Coptic texts in a sophisticated
way which incorporates several layers, including lemmatisation
(identifying individual words), syntactical analysis (analysing the
grammar of clauses), and entity tagging (identifying ‘things’, usually
nouns and noun groups). This opens up many new ways of interacting with
texts, including using ANNIS to perform sophisticated searches, and linking texts to the Coptic Dictionary Online so that word usage can be explored.
With the help of the fantastic SCRIPTORIUM team, we’ve fully processed four texts,
which have been added to their corpus, and we will continue adding new
texts over the coming months. This is another big step in making Coptic
magical texts more accessible to researchers, and allowing them to be
studied as one part of the rich picture of text production in Late
Antique Egypt.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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