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Diversifying the OpenITI corpus, One Text at a Time

by Gowaart Van Den Bossche | Jan 21, 2021 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

The vast majority of texts in the OpenITI corpus were sourced from three major collections of digital texts originally prepared by organisations based in the Middle East (see Peter Verkinderen’s excellent blog on the largest of them, Shamela). These collections have...

Judging the Differences between Arabic Text Versions Mathematically

by Sarah Savant | Nov 14, 2019 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Researchers working on historical Arabic texts have long known about transmission practices that resulted in considerable differences between ostensibly the same works. Scholars transmitted to many students and sometimes over long time spans; works were transmitted...

A New Application that Helps You Find Texts in the OpenITI Corpus

by Sarah Savant | Nov 4, 2019 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

The Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI) is a multi-institutional effort to construct the first open-access machine-actionable scholarly corpus of premodern Islamicate texts. The co-PIs for the project are Maxim Romanov (University of Vienna), Sarah Bowen Savant...

First Open Access Release of Our Arabic Corpus

by Sarah Savant | Jun 8, 2019 | Uncategorized | 1 comment

Scholars working in Arabic can now download the entire corpus used by the KITAB team through Zenodo, an Open Science platform that supports Open Access. Users will find in the corpus here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3082464 Number of authors: 1,859. Number of...

Happy News from the ERC…..and Some Details

by Sarah Savant | Jan 16, 2018 | Uncategorized | 1 comment

The European Research Council has awarded KITAB a five-year €2 ml grant that will enable us to make major progress on our research agenda. The project is titled “Exploring Cultural Memory in the Pre-Modern Islamic World (700–1500): Knowledge, Information...

Recent Posts

  • OpenITI release 2021.1.4
  • Diversifying the OpenITI corpus, One Text at a Time
  • Tracing the origins of a historical fragment focused on the Sāmānids
  • Al-Maktaba al-Shāmila: a short history
  • KITAB postdoc Gowaart Van Den Bossche wins BRAIS-De Gruyter dissertation prize – 2020

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