17.356 Massive Scholarly Data Projects 22-5/11/03

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                   Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 356.
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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 Model
    

    Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!



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