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From Natural Language to Graphing Social Networks

June 27, 2021 James M. Tucker Leave a comment

I want to explore some ideas I have been working on in collaboration with the Emma B. Andrews Diary project.…

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Posted in: Digital Humanities, Natural Language Processing Filed under: BeautifulSoup4, Emma B. Andrews, Graph Databases, Jupyter Notebooks, Python, Social Networks

Schriftenmetric – Digital Palaeography and Scroll Reconstruction (Part IV.2)

June 5, 2021 James M. Tucker Leave a comment

It has been sometime since I posted in this series. Before we dive back into the topic at hand, please…

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Posted in: 2D Material Reconstruction Series, Dead Sea Scrolls, Digital Humanities Filed under: 1QSa, Computer Vision, Manuscripts, Material Culture, Palaeography, Philology

On Material Reconstruction: No More Guessing Games

October 23, 2020 James M. Tucker Leave a comment

As I prepare my edition of 1QS+ab for publication, I am creating an apparatus that proposes legitimate reconstructions. By legitimate…

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Posted in: 2D Material Reconstruction Series, Dead Sea Scrolls, Digital Humanities Filed under: 1QSb, QImron, Schriftenmetric

Schriftenmetric – A Digital Humanities Approach to Scroll Reconstruction (Part IV.1)

September 13, 2020 James M. Tucker Leave a comment

In the last post of this series, I began to change gears by introducing a digital humanities approach to philological…

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Posted in: 2D Material Reconstruction Series, Dead Sea Scrolls, Digital Humanities Filed under: Ethics, Palaeography, Research Methods, Schriftenmetric
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Schriftenmetric – A Digital Humanities Method to Analyze Ancient Jewish Scripts

August 19, 2020 James M. Tucker Leave a comment

I’ve mentioned in the past that I have devised a methodology whereby I utilise Deep Neural Networks to analyse a…

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Posted in: Dead Sea Scrolls, Digital Humanities, Judean Desert Scrolls Filed under: Deep Neural Networks, Digital Palaeography, PhD Thesis, Schriftenmetric, University of Toronto
A Life of Books and Computers

Regions of Interest Quantified – Introduction to a Digital Humanities Solution to Editorial Methods (Part III.5)

August 9, 2020 James M. Tucker Leave a comment

In the previous post of this series, we surfaced some significant issues relating to the reconstruction of 1QSa II 11–12.…

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Posted in: Dead Sea Scrolls, Digital Humanities, Judean Desert Scrolls Filed under: DJD, Editorial Practices, Editorial Theory, Jupyter Lab, Philology, Python

Regions of Interest Quantified – Solving Problems of the Analogue Methods of the Discoveries in the Judean Desert Series (Part III.4)

July 28, 2020 James M. Tucker Leave a comment

It has been sometime since I have posted in this series. Since I am currently on vacation, I thought I…

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Posted in: 2D Material Reconstruction Series, Dead Sea Scrolls, Digital Humanities Filed under: 1QSa, Palaeography, PAM

eWorkshop – Digital Methods of Material Reconstruction: The Jigsaw Puzzle of the Dead Sea Scrolls

May 11, 2020 James M. Tucker Leave a comment

Over the past several years, I have been writing my doctoral thesis on the The Community Rule Manuscripts discovered in…

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Posted in: 2D Material Reconstruction Series, Dead Sea Scrolls, Digital Humanities

Regions of Interest Quantified – Solving Problems of the Analogue Methods of the Discoveries in the Judean Desert Series (Part III.3)

January 2, 2020 James M. Tucker Leave a comment

Before we return to solve some of the issues of 1QSa II 11–12, I think it would be helpful to…

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Posted in: 2D Material Reconstruction Series, Dead Sea Scrolls, Digital Humanities, Judean Desert Scrolls Filed under: Editorial Best Practices, Python, Relational Dabatase

On a New Damascus Fragment and/or Scroll?

December 31, 2019 James M. Tucker Leave a comment

At the outset of my work on the Damascus Document, I realised that all images of the fragments would need…

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Posted in: Dead Sea Scrolls, Digital Humanities, Judean Desert Scrolls, PAM Images Filed under: Damascus Covenant, Fastai, Serekh ha Yahad, Unidentified Fragments, University of Toronto

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