Hello and happy Chanukah. Here is the recording of Dr. Avi Shmidman's September 10 Library of Congress Lecture on Digital Analysis of Hebrew Manuscripts. It is a very exciting area of digital Hebraica humanities. Here is how a recent Library of Congress newsletter described it: Digital Analysis of Hebrew Manuscripts
On September 10, the Asian and Middle Eastern (ASME) Division of the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access (ABA) Directorate held a program featuring Avi Shmidman of Bar-Ilan University and the Israel Center for Text Analysis (Dicta). Shmidman's presentation covered the latest research on the "MiDRASH" research project (ERC-Synergy Project 101071829). The team (including Shmidman and 4 other scholars) has been developing algorithms for the automatic processing and analysis of scanned medieval Hebrew manuscripts including Handwritten Test Recognition, Paleographical Analysis, Morphological Analysis, Parallels Identification, and Fuzzy Matching, among other tasks. The goal of the project is to enable comprehensive digital analysis of all extant Hebrew manuscripts, identifying their time, place, genre, and content. The project also will offer an interface for full-text searching of the manuscripts. The event attracted both staff members and colleagues from academic institutions. Shmidman is also collaborating with ABA to integrate his team's automated Hebrew transliteration tool (built upon Dicta's Nakdan) into ScriptShifter, an automated transliteration tool developed by ABA. The aim of this collaboration is to streamline non-Latin script cataloging workflows and enhance efficiency in the BIBFRAME Editor (Marva). After running their OCR algorithm on the entirety of the Cairo Genizah fragments, the "MiDRASH" researchers were able to locate a host of long-lost manuscripts. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eCpweovGbg__;!!KGKeukY!yXbiajYXGElbGhOdLJ6wNTInc4jeYFoC0QsHXmj-9kWDsb9keQYwx8s8cgzkgaw4rmuLWn0yEolNXOYs$ Best Ariel Segal
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