Esten, Emily

Email Address
ORCID
Disciplines
Research Projects
Organizational Units
Position
Introduction
Research Interests

Filters

5
2019 - 201912020 - 20214
5
41
Reset filters

Settings

Search Results

Now showing 1 - 5 of 5
  • Publication
    Scribes, Scholars, and Scripts: Reviewing Data from Scribes of the Cairo Geniza
    (2021-10-23) Esten, Emily
    In spring 2019, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries launched the transcription phase of “Scribes of the Cairo Geniza,” a crowdsourcing project to sort and transcribe Cairo Geniza fragments. This article describes the results of the sorting phase of the project, and initial progress results for the transcription phase of the project.
  • Publication
    Data Paper: Digital Second Edition of Judaica Americana: A Bibliography of Publications to 1900
    (2020-07-02) Esten, Emily
    This dataset, extracted from Robert Singerman’s 1990 publication of Judaica Americana, contains bibliographic data of publications before the year 1900 pertaining to Jewish people, Judaism, and Jewish culture published in the United States, in any language. The data is primarily stored on the research data repository site ScholarlyCommons at the University of Pennsylvania, and it powers an Omeka site of the same name. Reuse potential of the data includes its use as a reference tool for early American Jewish history and history of the book, historical bibliometric data, book trade documentation, and as a support for the extant study of digitization efforts in research libraries. How to Cite: Esten, E., 2020. Digital Second Edition of Judaica Americana: A Bibliography of Publications to 1900. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 6(1), p.4. DOI:http://doi.org/10.5334/johd.15
  • Publication
    Dataset: Scribes of the Cairo Geniza, Sorting Phase, August 2017 - February 2019
    (2020-01-01) Esten, Emily
    This 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.
  • Publication
    Reviewing Sorting Phase Data
    (2019-04-16) Esten, Emily
    This 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
    Who are the #GenizaScribes: 2019-2020 Community Survey Report
    (2020-02-05) Esten, Emily
    This 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.