Housekeeping

By Hayim Lapin | Uncategorized

This Site I’ve now updated the “Examples of Work” page to include viewable samples. Thanks to Kirsten Keister for setting up the light box format to view the samples. The examples include two samples of work that processes more than one text (collation, synopsis) and a number of examples of manuscripts. The Project I’ve been working on two issues. One is pointing. I now have a complete set of pointers from the reference file (ref.xml) to the witness files for locating spans of damaged text and page and fragment beginnings and ends for fragmentary texts. Of course, because nothing is

Progress, real but in small steps.

By Hayim Lapin | Uncategorized

[Originally published on March 11, 2012 at http://blog.umd.edu/digitalmishnah] I had been holding out for my next post for a new Digital Mishnah website, courtesy of MITH, and a new collation demo hosted on it, but, that will be for my next post, deo volente. Since my last confession, I have: Submitted a paper that details methods and progress to date. It’s for a Festschrift, and I’ve been asked not to state the venue openly, but can share a draft. Thought a lot about (and only partly understand) multivariate statistics. Completed the first round of markup for all the Genizah fragments