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<h4>October 2023 highlight: Bm Workflow and Crowdsourcing for Research</h4>


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<p>In October 2023, the Bm project featured its workflow in a poster at the <a href="https://www.hcds.uni-hamburg.de/en/current/all-events/digital-total.html">Digital Total</a> event, organized and conducted by the House of Computing and Data Science (HCDS) of the Universität Hamburg, in collaboration with partners from the scientific platform PIER PLUS and the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.betamasaheft.uni-hamburg.de/documents/workflow.pdf">poster focuses on the crowdsourcing for research</a>, pioneered for Ethiopian and Eritrean manuscript studies by the Bm project.</p>

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<h4>September 2023 highlight: Summer School Working in Manuscript Studies</h4>


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<p>From 4 to 15 September 2023, the Beta maṣāḥǝft organized, in cooperation with the Academy projects <a href="https://www.etymologika.uni-hamburg.de/" target="_blank">Etymologika. Ordnung und Interpretation des Wissens in griechisch-byzantinischen Lexika bis in die Renaissance. Digitale Erschliessung von Manuskriptproduktion, Nutzerkreisen und kulturellem Umfeld</a> and <a href="https://www.etymologika.uni-hamburg.de/" target="_blank">Formulae-Litterae-Chartae</a> organized its seventh Summer School <a href="https://www.betamasaheft.uni-hamburg.de/en/conferences/summerschool2023.html">Working in Manuscript Studies: Traditional and New Approaches, with a focus on the Ethiopian and Eritrean tradition
</a>Thanks to the generous support of the <a href="https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/" target="_blank">VolkswagenStiftung</a>, the <a href="https://www.awhamburg.de/" target="_blank">Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg</a>, and the <a href="https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/" target="_blank">Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures</a> 25 students from Ethiopia, Germany, Italy, France, China, Turkey, USA, Poland, and Russia were able to profit from the unique expertise and also have the rare opportunity to get a hands-on experience in cataloguing, digitization, and using advanced digital humanities tools and approaches. </p>


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<h4>August 2024 highlight: Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana</h4>
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<p>Thanks to the cooperation with the <a href="https://www.bmlonline.it/la-biblioteca/cataloghi/">Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana</a> and to the financial support from the Hamburg-based <a href="https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/181924784">Sonderforschungsbereich 950 '
Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa' </a>and the <a href="https://www.traces.uni-hamburg.de/">ERC project 'TraCES, From Translation to Creation: Changes in Ethiopic Style and Lexicon from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages'</a>, in 2018 the Beta maṣāḥǝft could co-organize a mission to Florence, where the Ethiopic collection of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana could be digitized (by Antonella Brita, Karsten Helmholz and Susanne Hummel).</p>
<p>In 2019 the images, alongside XML metadata stubs, were made available on the Bm website. They were subsequently aligned with automatic transcription acquired with the help of the <a href="https://readcoop.eu/de/transkribus/">Transkribus software</a>, where a model had been specifically trained for Ethiopic by Pietro Liuzzo. The transcriptions (partially manually corrected) were also made available on the Bm platform.</p>
<p>In 2023, Carsten Hoffmann carried out the cataloguing of the manuscripts, using the published catalogues by Paolo Marrassini as well as the digitally available images. The collection can now be consulted at <a href="https://tinyurl.com/BMLethiopic">https://tinyurl.com/BMLethiopic</a></p>
Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa' </a>and the <a href="https://www.traces.uni-hamburg.de/">ERC project 'TraCES, From Translation to Creation: Changes in Ethiopic Style and Lexicon from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages'</a>, in 2018 the Beta maṣāḥǝft could co-organize a mission to Florence, where the Ethiopic collection of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana could be digitized (by Antonella Brita, Karsten Helmholz and Susanne Hummel).</p>
<p>In 2019 the images, alongside XML metadata stubs, were made available on the Bm website. They were subsequently aligned with automatic transcription acquired with the help of the <a href="https://readcoop.eu/de/transkribus/">Transkribus software</a>, where a model had been specifically trained for Ethiopic by Pietro Liuzzo. The transcriptions (partially manually corrected) were also made available on the Bm platform.</p>
<p>In 2023, Carsten Hoffmann carried out the cataloguing of the manuscripts, using the published catalogues by Paolo Marrassini as well as the digitally available images. The collection can now be consulted at <a href="https://tinyurl.com/BMLethiopic">https://tinyurl.com/BMLethiopic</a></p>
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<h4>July 2023 highlight: Bm project presentations</h4>
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<p>Thanks to the cooperation with the <a href="https://www.bmlonline.it/la-biblioteca/cataloghi/">Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana</a> and to the financial support from the Hamburg-based <a href="https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/181924784">Sonderforschungsbereich 950 '
Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa' </a>and the <a href="https://www.traces.uni-hamburg.de/">ERC project 'TraCES, From Translation to Creation: Changes in Ethiopic Style and Lexicon from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages'</a>, in 2018 the Beta maṣāḥǝft could co-organize a mission to Florence, where the Ethiopic collection of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana could be digitized (by Antonella Brita, Karsten Helmholz and Susanne Hummel).</p>
<p>In 2019 the images, alongside XML metadata stubs, were made available on the Bm website. They were subsequently aligned with automatic transcription acquired with the help of the <a href="https://readcoop.eu/de/transkribus/">Transkribus software</a>, where a model had been specifically trained for Ethiopic by Pietro Liuzzo. The transcriptions (partially manually corrected) were also made available on the Bm platform.</p>
<p>In 2023, Carsten Hoffmann carried out the cataloguing of the manuscripts, using the published catalogues by Paolo Marrassini as well as the digitally available images. The collection can now be consulted at <a href="https://tinyurl.com/BMLethiopic">https://tinyurl.com/BMLethiopic</a></p>
<p>In October 2023, the Bm project featured its workflow in a poster at the <a href="https://www.hcds.uni-hamburg.de/en/current/all-events/digital-total.html">Digital Total</a> event, organized and conducted by the House of Computing and Data Science (HCDS) of the Universität Hamburg, in collaboration with partners from the scientific platform PIER PLUS and the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg.</p>
<p>The poster focuses on the crowdsourcing for research, pioneered for Ethiopian and Eritrean manuscript studies by the Bm project.</p>


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