Coding the Hebrew Bible

TY - JOUR

T1 - Coding the Hebrew Bible

AU - Roorda, Dirk

PY - 2018/7/30

Y1 - 2018/7/30

N2 - Related data set “BHSA” with URL http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1302798 in repository “Zenodo”. The text of the Hebrew Bible is a subject of ongoing study in disciplines ranging from theology to linguistics to history to computing science. In order to study the text digitally, one has to represent it in bits and bytes, together with related materials. The author has compiled a dataset, called BHSA (Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (Amstelodamensis)), consisting of the textual source of the Hebrew Bible according to the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS), and annotations by the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer. This dataset powers the website SHEBANQ and others, and is being used in education and research. The author has developed a Python package, Text-Fabric, to process ancient texts together with annotations. He shows how Text-Fabric can be used to process the BHSA. This includes creating new research data alongside it, and sharing it. Text-Fabric also supports versioning: as versions of the BHSA change over time, and people invest a lot in applications based on the data, measures are needed to prevent the loss of earlier results.

AB - Related data set “BHSA” with URL http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1302798 in repository “Zenodo”. The text of the Hebrew Bible is a subject of ongoing study in disciplines ranging from theology to linguistics to history to computing science. In order to study the text digitally, one has to represent it in bits and bytes, together with related materials. The author has compiled a dataset, called BHSA (Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (Amstelodamensis)), consisting of the textual source of the Hebrew Bible according to the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS), and annotations by the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer. This dataset powers the website SHEBANQ and others, and is being used in education and research. The author has developed a Python package, Text-Fabric, to process ancient texts together with annotations. He shows how Text-Fabric can be used to process the BHSA. This includes creating new research data alongside it, and sharing it. Text-Fabric also supports versioning: as versions of the BHSA change over time, and people invest a lot in applications based on the data, measures are needed to prevent the loss of earlier results.

KW - Hebrew Bible

KW - corpus linguistics

KW - theology

KW - exegesis

KW - text processing

KW - information retrieval

KW - data science

KW - open science

U2 - 10.1163/24523666-01000011

DO - 10.1163/24523666-01000011

M3 - Article

SN - 2452-3666

SP - x

JO - Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences

JF - Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences

M1 - x

ER -