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Publication Who are the #GenizaScribes: 2019-2020 Community Survey Report(2020-02-05) Esten, EmilyThis blog post (originally posted on Medium) reviews a survey issued to the Scribes of the Cairo Geniza user community. The survey was open from Tuesday, December 12, 2019 through Monday, January 13, 2020, and available only through direct email via Zooniverse. Thus, only volunteers who had registered with Zooniverse, participated in the project at least once, and have not opted out of receiving project-related emails were eligible to participate. We received 205 survey responses (5% of email recipients, 2% of all participants). All responses listed below are in aggregate, in descending/alphabetical order.Publication Reviewing Sorting Phase Data(2019-04-16) Esten, EmilyThis is a series of blog posts (originally posted on Medium) regarding the Phase 1 Data produced from the Scribes of the Cairo Geniza project. Part 1 reviews the question of whether a subject was Hebrew or Arabic script. Part 2 reviews the question of whether a subject was written in formal or informal script. Part 3 reviews the presence of various visual characteristics. This final part reviews classification tags from the talk boards.Publication Dataset: Scribes of the Cairo Geniza, Sorting Phase, August 2017 - February 2019(2020-01-01) Esten, EmilyThis Scribes of the Cairo Geniza dataset comprise images of Geniza fragments from Judaica manuscript collections at Penn Libraries, the Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Libraries, and the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary. The dataset comprises records of 40,152 subjects (fragment[s] as defined by Zooniverse) sorted between August 2017 and February 2019. Images of fragments were uploaded to the Zooniverse.org citizen science website where they were classified by scholars and volunteer humanists. Classification involved identifying script type and formality, and landmarking pre-defined features on the fragments.