{"id":6940,"date":"2012-03-12T09:01:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T13:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/?p=6940"},"modified":"2020-10-08T16:02:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T20:02:25","slug":"progress-real-but-in-small-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/progress-real-but-in-small-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress, real but in small steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had been holding out for my next post for a new Digital Mishnah website, courtesy of MITH, and a new collation demo hosted on it, but, that will be for my next post, <em>deo volente<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Since my last confession, I have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Submitted a paper that details methods and progress to date. It\u2019s for a Festschrift, and I\u2019ve been asked not to state the venue openly, but can share a draft.<\/li>\n<li>Thought a lot about (and only partly understand) multivariate statistics.<\/li>\n<li>Completed the first round of markup for all the Genizah fragments for my sample chapter. A second round of markup linking the fragments to the reference text needs to be done (next bullet). Formatted versions of these texts will be viewable<\/li>\n<li>Started rethinking how to handle the encoding of highly fragmentary texts. In particular, I\u2019ve found four pieces of a single sheet of text in two different locations in the Taylor-Schechter collection (TS AS 78.69 + TS AS 78.162 + TS AS 78.235\u00a0 + TS NS 329.286; the sheet adjoins another single sheet from a third box, TS E2.71). For the present, we are encoding each fragment as a document, and recording the extent of the lacunae at the edges of the fragment as fitting within the smallest properly oriented rectangle that encloses the fragment. What needs doing is a pointing scheme that will point into the reference text.<\/li>\n<li>Identified the next fragments to work on to expand the work to Tractate <em>Neziqin<\/em> (aka the <em>Bavot<\/em>), and started to recruit people to work on it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next up, completing fragmentary texts; encoding the remaining Mishnah texts in the Babylonian Talmud mss., and learning some Java.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hayim Lapin is Robert H. Smith Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland. He currently is completing a faculty fellowship at MITH. This post originally appeared at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalmishnah.org\/uncategorized\/housekeeping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Digital Mishnah<\/a> on March 11, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been holding out for my next post for a new Digital Mishnah website, courtesy of MITH, and a new collation demo hosted on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[70],"tags":[110],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Progress, real but in small steps &ndash; Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/progress-real-but-in-small-steps\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Progress, real but in small steps &ndash; Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I had been holding out for my next post for a new Digital Mishnah website, courtesy of MITH, and a new collation demo hosted on [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/progress-real-but-in-small-steps\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UMD.MITH\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-03-12T13:01:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-10-08T20:02:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MITH-logostack-square-grn.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"300\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/\",\"name\":\"Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/progress-real-but-in-small-steps\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/progress-real-but-in-small-steps\/\",\"name\":\"Progress, real but in small steps &ndash; Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-03-12T13:01:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-10-08T20:02:25+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/#\/schema\/person\/4a8c89403fcc21b1d79a56e4c5acbbb2\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/progress-real-but-in-small-steps\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/#\/schema\/person\/4a8c89403fcc21b1d79a56e4c5acbbb2\",\"name\":\"Hayim Lapin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c0363e65b869dae8f81f321c80ce9322?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Hayim Lapin\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21229,"href":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6940\/revisions\/21229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}