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- Title
Of Scribes and Scripts: Citizen Science and the Cairo Geniza.
- Authors
Eckstein, Laura Newman
- Abstract
The article focuses on the project "Scribes of the Cairo Geniza" which transcribe Cairo Geniza fragments, by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, in partnership with the Princeton Geniza Project, the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University and the Zooniverse. It mentions that the project asks citizen-scientists to sort Cairo Geniza fragments in preparation for their later transcription phase.
- Subjects
CAIRO Genizah; UNIVERSITY of Pennsylvania. Library; JEWISH Theological Seminary of America. Library; UNIVERSITY of Cambridge; TRANSCRIPTION
- Publication
Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, 2018, Vol 3, Issue 1, p208
- ISSN
2381-5329
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mns.2018.0008