Author: Digital Forum Staff

  • Digital Forum Showcases: Epidat

    Epidat Thomas Kollatz, Digital Academy, Mainz Epidat, short for epigraphic database, is a research platform for Jewish funerary epigraphy. Currently, Epidat contains transcriptions, translations, descriptions, and iconographic documentation of 43,838 headstones (with 79,972 digital images) from…

  • Digital Forum Showcases: eScriptorium

    eScriptorium Daniel Stoekl Directeur d’Etudes at the EPHE (daniel.stoekl@ephe.psl.eu) eScriptorium is an open source platform to automatically transcribe manuscripts, printed works or inscriptions. It is developed by members of the AOrOc laboratory at the EPHE, PSL…

  • Digital Forum Showcases: DICTA

    DICTA: The Israel Center for Text Analysis Avi Shmidman Senior Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University; Senior Researcher, DICTA The Dicta Center, founded by Professor Moshe Koppel, is dedicated to bridging the gap between cutting-edge research in the field…

  • Digital Forum Showcases: PEACE

    PEACE: A Portal of Epigraphy, Archaeology, Conservation and Education on Jewish Funerary Culture Ortal-Paz Saar, Utrecht University, Netherlands In the year 829 the family of Rebecca, daughter of Bono, laid her to rest in the ground…

  • Digital Forum Showcases: Minhag Italia

    Minhag Italia: Variations of Jewishness in the Nineteenth Century as Reflected in Italian Prayer Books – A Digital Analysis Alessandro Grazi Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz Minhag Italia is a 5-year project funded with institutional resources, which…