When: Wednesday, April 29, 12:00pm-2:00pm
Where: Hornbake Library, Room 0301 (MITH)
Link: http://www.freestuff.umd.edu/events.cfm?mode=detail&eventID=34060
Description: The Cairo Genizah is a unique treasure trove of medieval Jewish manuscripts, comprising about 250,000 fragments written mainly in the 10th to the 13th centuries. This collection has been digitized by the Friedberg Genizah Project almost in full, producing some 450,000 digital images.The lecture will introduce this collection and present some of the modules and tools that have been developed for automatically extracting data from the digital images, joining the dispersed fragments, and locating fragments by a specific handwriting.
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