A New Tool for Computer Assisted Paleography: The Digital Analysis of Syriac Handwriting Project

A New Tool for Computer Assisted Paleography: The Digital Analysis of Syriac Handwriting ProjectHugoye: Journal of Syriac StudiesSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/NSKXDN4V/tei

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2024-08-15-04:00

Born digital.

CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Michael PhilipPennVijoyAbrahamScottBaileyPeterBroadwellR. JordanCrouserJavierde la RosaNicholas R.HoweSimonWilesA New Tool for Computer Assisted Paleography: The Digital Analysis of Syriac Handwriting Projecthttp://syriaca.org/cbss/NSKXDN4Vhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/NSKXDN4Vhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/NSKXDN4VHugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies24:1202135-52Over the last nine years, a forty-seven-person digital humanities project has explored the feasibility of computer assisted paleography for Syriac. That is, could one use big data, visual analytics, and recent advances in the digital analysis of handwriting to better understand Syriac manuscripts and Syriac manuscript culture? Last June we launched the public-facing part of our project titled the “Digital Analysis of Syriac Handwriting” or DASH (dash.Stanford.edu). DASH consists of digital page images from 90% of the world’s surviving Syriac manuscripts securely dated to before the twelfth century, as well as 90,000 individually trimmed letters from these manuscripts. In addition to introducing this tool to scholars of Syriac, this article presents a series of novel visualization tools that can also serve as a starting point for digital paleography projects in other linguistic traditions. Penn, Michael Philip, Vijoy Abraham, Scott Bailey, Peter Broadwell, R. Jordan Crouser, Javier de la Rosa, Nicholas R. Howe, and Simon Wiles. “A New Tool for Computer Assisted Paleography: The Digital Analysis of Syriac Handwriting Project.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 24:1 (2021): 35–52. Michael Philip Penn et al., A New Tool for Computer Assisted Paleography: The Digital Analysis of Syriac Handwriting Project, Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 24:1 (2021): 35–52.Syriac studiesXIX-XXI CEXXI CEdigitalmanuscriptspaleography