marriage, cheese and pirates: text-mining the cairo genizah
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Marriage, cheese and pirates: Text-mining the Cairo Genizah
Ben Outhwaite Cambridge University Library
Cambridge University Library
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The Ben Ezra Synagogue Fustat, Egypt
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5Solomon Schechter at work in Cambridge University Library, 1898
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Certificates of kashrut…
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A letter to Seleucia
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A research unit within the UL since 1974…
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Cambridge Digital Library
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Cambridge Digital Library
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Making best use of legacy data
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100 years of published scholarship
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Text Mining the Cairo Genizah (Manuscript Cultures 7)
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The Mellon project: mining 100 years of publications
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The Mellon project: mining 100 years of publications
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Rated tags
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Maturing tag cloud
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Similar tags suggest related manuscripts
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User-derived data
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Searching different qualities of data
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• We have 310,000 images, but there is no catalogue of the Cairo Genizah Collection in Cambridge
• There is a large amount of legacy data of varying quality
• The size dictates that this will be a long-running project, and therefore we need a pragmatic approach to creating and sustaining the resource
• The aim is to put the best possible image in front of the person most qualified to assess it: we should be helping people find things, not reading them for them
• http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/taylor-schechter-genizah-research-unit/projects/discovering-history