Current Approaches to the Computational Analysis of Hebrew Manuscript Data
Presented at From Manuscript to Screen, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg, January 2025.
Digital Humanities
Segmenting Dead Sea Scroll Fragments for a Scientific Image Set
Presents a multi-stage pipeline for segmenting Dead Sea Scroll manuscript fragments from IAA images, including multispectral thresholding for separating ink and parchment regions.
Creating Collaborative Editions of Dead Sea Scrolls: A Hands-on Demonstration and Discussion
Invited lecture in the Digital Humanities Series, Ohio State University, April 2024.
Digital-Humanities in Realtime: Physical/Computational Constraints and their Philosophical Underpinnings
Invited lecture in the Digital Humanities Series, Ohio State University, April 2024.
Scripta Qumranica Electronica and Qumran Digital
Presented at Workshop on Digital Publication of Right-to-Left Script Corpora, University of Maryland, June 2023.
Automatically linking Dead Sea Scroll transcriptions to fragment images: Towards the letter level
Presented at 2022 IOQS, Zurich, August 2022.
Automated Font Generation
Presents a procedure for the automatic generation of manuscript-specific fonts based on letter-level coordinate data captured in the Scripta Qumranica Electronica virtual research environment.
Exploiting Insertion Symbols for Marginal Additions in the Recognition Process to Establish Reading Order
Proposes a method for exploiting insertion symbols found in historical manuscripts to correctly order marginal additions during the handwritten text recognition process.
BiblIA — a General Model for Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts and an Open Annotated Dataset
Presents BiblIA, an open annotated dataset and handwritten text recognition model for medieval Hebrew manuscripts, enabling computational analysis across diverse scribal hands.
On the Critical Digital Edition: Scripta Qumranica Electronica
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, online, December 2020.
Editing the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Scripta Qumranica Electronica VRE
Presented at VREs and Ancient Manuscripts Conference, Lausanne (online), September 2020.
Transcription Alignment for Highly Fragmentary Historical Manuscripts: The Dead Sea Scrolls
Develops an automated system to align transcriptions of highly fragmentary Dead Sea Scroll texts with visible glyphs on scroll images at the individual glyph level.
Digital Exploration of the Dead Sea Scrolls with Scripta Qumranica Electronica
Presented at The Dead Sea Scrolls in Recent Scholarship, New York University (online), May 2020.
Scripta Qumranica Electronica and the (Hu)man Behind the Curtain
Presented at Human–Machine Cooperation in Archaeology, Epigraphy and Ancient History, Ariel University, February 2020.
Aus der Höhle in die digitale Welt
A general-audience article presenting the journey of the Dead Sea Scrolls from cave discovery to digital research environments.
Clipping IIIF Images to a Path
How to clip IIIF-served manuscript images to non-rectangular regions using SVG clipping paths — with working examples and code.
Custom Fonts for Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Creating custom fonts directly from manuscript images for use in ancient Near Eastern studies — covering image processing, font creation with Birdfont, and kerning with Microsoft Volt.
Digitale Editionen von fragmentarische Handschriften: Das Projekt Scripta Qumranica Electronica
Presented at the 33rd Deutscher Orientalistentag, September 2017.
Das Projekt 'Scripta Qumranica Electronica': Texte, Bilder, und Datenbank
Presented at the 33rd Deutscher Orientalistentag, September 2017.
Scripta Qumranica Electronica (2016–2021)
Introduces the Scripta Qumranica Electronica project — a German-Israeli collaboration for the digital edition of Dead Sea Scroll manuscripts in a virtual research environment.