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Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to invite you to our conference Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: British Library and Beyond.

DATE AND TIME

Mon 21 November 2016

09:30 – 16:00

LOCATION

The British Library Conference Centre

Bronte Room

96 Euston Rd

London

Funded by The Polonsky Foundation, the Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project had digitised 1,300 manuscripts from the British Library's collection in its first phase. These include codices, scrolls, charters and single sheets. A second digitisation phase, sponsored by the National Library of Israel, has started in April 2016 and focuses mainly on the Library’s significant Gaster collection.

Join us in this conference dedicated to the British Library’s digitised collection of Hebrew manuscripts, and find out more about the collection, how to use it, and how we can help. Conference sessions will include presentations on how to access the Library’s digital collections and what opportunities it has to offer to graduate students and academics. The conference will also cover external projects working with digitised Hebrew manuscripts at the National Library of Israel, as well as UK university libraries in Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester.

Confirmed speakers:

·         Miriam Lewis, British Library: The Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

·         Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert, British Library: Digital Scholarship: Accessing and Using our Digitised Collection

·         Allan Sudlow and James Perkins, British Library: Collaborative Research and PhD Placements at the British Library

·         Mahendra Mahey, British Library: British Library Labs: Using the Library’s Digital Collections and Data

·         Mia Ridge, British Library: Digitised Manuscripts Platform and the Universal Viewer

·         Aviad Stollman, National Library of Israel: Why Digitise Hebrew Manuscripts

·         Tsafra Siew, National Library of Israel: Ktiv: The International Collection of Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts: A Roadmap

·         Cesar Merchan-Hamann, Bodleian Library, Oxford: The Vatican-Bodleian Digitization Project: The Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library

·         Renate Smithuis, University of Manchester: The Crawford and Gaster Hebrew Collections at the John Rylands Library of Manchester – the Creation of an Online Catalogue as Part of a New Digital Platform

·         Gabriele Ferrario, Cambridge University Library: Discovering the Known: Text Mining the Cairo Genizah

Tickets are free but you will need to book your place. For more information about the event and to book a ticket please visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digitised-hebrew-manuscripts-british-library-and-beyond-tickets-26408351089

All the best,

Adi

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