Dear Safranim,
This is a wonderful achievement and Prof. Choueka deserves all the
credit in the world for developing and implementing the advanced
computer programming which makes these types of comparisons possible.
It may be worth noting for historical purposes that the use of digital
technologies to search physically dispersed genizah fragments and to
compare them in order to identify matches was pioneered at the Penn
Libraries in partnership with the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Unit at
Cambridge University Library and with the Library of the Jewish
Theological Seminary in New York City.
See: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/genizah/index.cfm /
Among the librarians who participated in this effort were our own Heidi
Lerner at Stanford University and Naomi Steinberger at the Library of
the Jewish Theological Seminary.. Note also that Heidi and Seth
Jerchower, then at the Penn Libraries, gave numerous presentations and
published an article discussing the MARC cataloging issues they solved
in the course of the project. Their article, which first appeared in
/Cataloging & Classification Quarterly,/ Volume 42, Number 1, 2006,
pages 21-39, can be read on-line via the Scholarly Commons website at
the University of Pennsylvania:
http://repository.upenn.edu/library_papers/7/
Thanks,
Arthur
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On 5/28/2013 4:56 PM, Hasafran wrote:
Subject: piecing together the fragments of the Cairo Genizah - NYT
This article may be of interest
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/world/middleeast/computers-piecing-together-jigsaw-of-jewish-lore.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&;
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