Dicta
Post date: Nov 24, 2015 2:40:39 PM
I went to a Digital Humanities meeting here in Israel in Jerusalem. It was a meeting to introduce "Dicta", the Israel Center for text Analysis. A short summary of Dicta's aims can be found here:
They claim the technologies and methods they develop are not language specific and will be available free of charge for whoever studies Jewish texts.
One of the people leading Dicta is Professor Moshe Koppel (Moishk@gmail.com) who was already mentioned to me by Dr. Cheesman. Someone else I met there is Dr. Avi Shmidman (shmidmanATgmail.com) who does comparative research on different variants of prayer liturgy. Although I will focus my research on the translations of one specific version of the Haggadah (The ashkenazi orthodox) it will be interesting to talk to him because the methods he uses to compare and visualize his different Hebrew versions of the prayers might be usable for me to compare and visualize my translations.
I will hopefully meet Professor Koppel F2F within two weeks.
By the way, as it turns out, there is also an Israel Digital Humanities Facebook page and Webpage