15 février 2018

Mahadura Website will contain a wide range of manuscripts, and will put at the disposal of researchers and all interested users a powerful tool for transcribing manuscripts and creating advanced computerized synopses. More...

Yad HaRambam site will include a synoptic edition of Maimonides' great book Mishneh Torah according to early printings and manuscripts, together with hundreds of commentaries and novellae written on this work. More...

Nahum Collection website contains manuscripts from the Yemenite Genizah collected by Yehuda Levi Nahum, who established the "Unveiling the Treasures" project. More...

Judeo-Arabic Corpus includes more than one hundred works in this language, a total of about four million words. Alongside it is a full bibliography of all publications in the field of Judeo-Arabic with bibliographical lexicon. More...

"Hachi Garsinan" Talmud Bavli Variants site includes images and transcriptions of all textual witnesses of the Babylonian Talmud: Genizah fragments, manuscripts and early printings. The site also includes a computerized synopsis for the entire Talmud with several display options that allow the user to highlight variants he/she wishes to view. The site also contains the "Thesaurus of Talmudic Manuscripts " edited by Prof. Yaacov Sussmann. The Academic Director was Dr. Menachem Katz. More...

FGP - The Cairo Genizah site is used by Genizah researchers in all fields of Jewish Studies: Biblical Literature, Rabbinic Literature, Prayer and Liturgy, Humanities and Sciences, the History and Culture of Jewish Society in the Mediterranean Basin in the medieval era. The site preserves images of all the Genizah fragments accompanied by extensive information : Identifications, catalog records, bibliographic data, transcriptions, translations etc. The site includes advanced visual tools designed specifically for the project. More...

The Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Society (FJMS) of Toronto, Canada carries out many of its activities in a Joint Venture with the Friedberg Genizah Project (FGP). The aim of this Joint Venture is to further the Society's (FJMS) goals of educating the public through the study and research of Genizah fragments, manuscripts and early printings as well as other books and documents as they relate to Judaism and Jews.By using advanced software systems freely accessible to everyone, anywhere, anytime. More...

Moocs can still bring higher education to those who really need it
Diana Laurillard, Eileen Kennedy, Times Higher Education, 2017/12/18
For something that's supposed to be dead, MOOCs are still very much alive. And according to this articlee, they have more potential for the future. "Moocs are still multiplying and branching out into new forms of accredited learning experiences," write the authors. More...

Inside China's Vast New Experiment in Social Ranking
Mara Hvistendahl, Wired, 2017/12/18
This article descibes China's embrace of electronic payments using WeChat and Alipay, and discusses its extension into personal credit. It them suggests a linkage between various plans to allocate people 'social credit' according to their social behaviour (for example, whether they were charged with offenses, whether they disrupted spociety). More...

Pearson Open Sources Equella—Properly
Michael Feldstein, e-Literate, 2017/12/18
The most interesting bit is the pair of disclosures at the bottom of the article. What is the "yet-to-be-announced e-Literate project" being sponsored by Pearson? What is the other "yet-to-be-announced e-Literate project" being sponsored by Unicon. More...