Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 356.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 06:38:13 +0000
From: Patrick Durusau <Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org>
Subject: Massive Scholarly Data Projects: Perspectives and Experiences
Greetings!
The Society of Biblical Literature Annual meeting will be held in Atlanta,
Georgia, November 22-25, 2003. The Society of Biblical Literature and the
Oriental Institute Chicago are sponsoring a joint session entitled:
"Massive Scholarly Data Projects: Perspectives and Experiences." Details
follow:
Members of the Humanist list who will be attending the Annual Meeting of
the SBL/AAR are cordially invited to attend the third annual session of the
collaboration between the Society of Biblical Literature and the Oriental
Institute Chicago
This year's session is entitled "Massive Scholarly Data Projects:
Perspectives and Experiences". Principal researchers describe their
experiences with some of the largest humanities projects to date dealing
with textual resources.
and features reports on:
*The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon
*The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary
*The Perseus Digital Library
*APIS: Advanced Papyrological Information System
*Lost in a Data Sea? Navigating with Topic Maps
Monday, November 24th
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Theme: Massive Scholarly Data Projects: Perspectives and Experiences
Charles E. Jones, The Oriental Institute, Univ Of Chicago, Presiding
Stephen Kaufman, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati
Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (20 min)
[The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon will include all ancient Aramaic, is
based on a compilation of all Aramaic literature and will include all
modern scholarly discussion of the Aramaic language. It represents a
departure from prior partial approaches to the construction of lexicons and
offers the potential for data sets and approaches not previously possible]
Steve Tinney, University Of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary (20 min)
[The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary will result in an exhaustive
dictionary of the Sumerian language that will be useful for Sumerologists
and non- specialists. In addition to the dictionary, the project is
developing tools and datasets for the Sumerian language]
Gregory Crane, Tufts University
The Perseus Digital Library (20 min)
[The Perseus Digital Library is in part a text collection but also offers a
broad range of other relevant resources. It is evolving to offer complex
interactions with a variety of source materials to a variety of audiences]
Traianos Gagos, University Of Michigan
APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) (20 min)
[APIS is a collaborative effort to bring images of payyrological source
materials directly to scholars. It currently has approximately 2,500
records with images for use by scholars]
Patrick Durusau, Society Of Biblical Literature
Lost in a Data Sea? Navigating with Topic Maps (20 min)
[One common feature of the projects in this session is massive amounts of
data and complex navigational requirements. Topic maps are demonstrated to
illustrate one possible means of answering navigational needs]
Each presentation is 20 minutes with a 10 minute Q&A period.
All are welcome and encouraged to attend!
Hope everyone is having a great day!
Patrick
-- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference ModelTopic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!
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