Manuscripts in the (Digital) Humanities
Biblical Studies and Theology have generally been at the forefront of Digital Humanities, vying with the departments of English Literature and Modern History for leading digital research in new directions. The ETCBC is a prime example of this, with its flagship...
Bootcamp on NLP tools for Syriac
On 17-18 January, the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC) organised a 'boot camp' on NLP tools for Syriac. The response was a bit overwhelming; we had to close the registration well before the deadline, because the limit of twenty-five participants was...
ETCBC Data for the Libre Bible Software
Libre Software Richard Stallman is the well-known hacker and the leader of the movement of the "libre software (free software)." The reason he usually uses the French word "libre" instead of the common English word "free" is to prevent confusing the notions of...
Digital Tools for the Study of Biblical Hebrew
Having more and more texts available digitally enables us to create simple but effective study tools. While the value of traditional learning techniques and a great deal of practice must not be underestimated, some digital tools can reinforce such a learning style. As...
Mapping the World of the Text: Empirical Semantics
Marc Chagall, "Crossing of the Read Sea," 1966, with grid overlay (source) Anyone who picks up the ETCBC Hebrew data soon notices the lack of semantic categories. Things like lexical word classes, semantic functions/roles, or robust lexeme glosses are nowhere...
(Re)fuelling Text-Fabric: Updating ETCBC’s Public Data Sources
The research data developed at the ETCBC is live data. The researchers at the ETCBC continuously develop new (theoretical) insights about the research data of the Hebrew Bible and other ancient corpora (e.g. inscriptions from Qumran), review encoding mistakes, and...
Bootcamp: NLP tools for Syriac, 17–18 January 2019
In the CLARIAH funded project “LinkSyr: Linking Syriac Data”, the Eep...
The Value of Open Data: An Explanation and an Exhortation
As August 2018 approaches, I enter my eighth year of full-time biblical/theological research. Even before that, a trove of the scholarly world had been available to me as I flipped open James Strong's 1894 Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In this formidable...
Hebrew in Mexico with the Bible Online Learner
By Janet Dyk Several years ago, after deciding that what I missed here in Holland was white water and after being unable to book a suitable rafting expedition in Belgium (in the summer the water in the rivers is too low for rafting and in the fall when there is enough...
From ETEN Workshop to Copenhagen Alliance for Open Biblical Language Resources
From 19-23 March 2018, the ETEN Workshop on the original languages took place. Invited by Nicolai Winther-Nielsen – a well-known visitor at the ETCBC – I had the opportunity to participate in this workshop. Soon it turned out that what started as a modest...
