A scholarly digital edition of Codex Sinaiticus, published on the internet
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Grant Holder:
Professor David Parker
This project has created a full scholarly digital edition of Codex Sinaiticus, one of the two oldest Greek Bibles and the oldest complete New Testament, arguably the most important of all surviving ancient manuscripts. It is part of a larger project to bring together all surviving leaves of the manuscript, divided among four different countries, into a virtual whole, and to provide access at every level from the general reader to the most advanced scholar. Within that larger project, this scholarly edition focuses on the needs of researchers, scholars, and educated readers, offering meticulous detail in image and transcript, with highly-developed tools in a sophisticated interface, to enable research hitherto impossible.
Delivery of XML data to web site developers, who transform it into html
| Project start date: 2006-07 | Project end date: 2009-04 |
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| Methods used | Category |
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| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) | Metadata standards |
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Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Other aspects of the whole Codex Sinaiticus Project are funded from a number of sources
Content types created:
Text
Source material used:
Digital images and autopsy of Codex Sinaiticus
Digital resource created:
website dedicated to Codex Sinaiticus, containing images, transcription, selected translations and information. The transcription is the part produced in Birmingham
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Data Formats created:
Extensible Markup Language (XML) TEI-compliant
Metadata standards employed:
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
Institutions affiliated with this project:
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| University of Birmingham |
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung |
| British Library |
| Münster |
| University Library |
| Leipzig |
| St Catherine's Monastery Mt Sinai |
| National Library of Russia |
| St Petersburg |
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Dr Peter Robinson; Professor David Parker; Dr Scot McKendrick |
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| Other staff: | Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s), Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
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| Author(s) of record | David Parker |
| Title | A scholarly digital edition of Codex Sinaiticus, published on the internet |
| Record created | 2008-05-28 |
| Record updated | 2010-06-11 11:17 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2257 |
| Citation of record | David Parker: A scholarly digital edition of Codex Sinaiticus, published on the internet. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2257> created: 2008-05-28, last updated 2010-06-11 11:17 |