hedracor

Hebrew Drama Corpus

2023-09-11/13 workshop plan

• Imrpove the TSVwithHMTLs-to-TEI/XMLs conversion procedure (coding skills required)
• Add metadata from the table into TEI/XML-s (coding skills required)
• Check the correctness of the markup, i.e. if the stage tags actually mark (Hebrew knowledge required, I guess)
• Check if all the critical metadata is there in the table (dates, authors, text sources) and that they made it to the TEI/XML-s intact (Hebrew knowledge required, I guess, but maybe also doable with machine translation)
• Check authors' death dates to see if all the stuff is copyright-free
• Figure out what date from the TSV metadata should be written as written/premiere/publication into TEI/XML
• Showcase study on the stylometry of Hebrew writers
• Dockerize the stuff and show the locally deployed HeDraCor prototype

2022-11-09 meeting follow-up:

• We looked at some slides with details on current DraCor 'onboarding' procedures
• We discussed sources for the plays:
  • Project Ben-Yehuda (Hebrew)
  • Corpus of Hanoch Levin (Hebrew) -- digitised, but copyright-protected
  • Dybbuk corpus (Yiddish) -- notebooks with plays digitised by Ruthie and Sinai
• We started a list of Hebrew and Yiddish plays (in separate tabs)
• We started a private github repository (this one:) to store our common memory for this working group; we can also use issues there for discussions, as Peer suggested

Some actions we decided to take:

• Yael & Aynat will update the list of Hebrew plays (preferably with direct links to sources; or if that's easier than links you can instead upload sources to the private github)
• Sinai & Ruthie will update the list of Yiddish plays (but we do not expect this one to be big at the moment)
• Sinai will look for more digitised sources for Yiddish plays (we ask you to prioritise the copyright-free material by the way)
• Everybody will tell Daniil their github name so that he could add them to the repository.
• Daniil will look at the sources (especially the already encoded ones) and try some conversion procedures
• We're all looking forward to the DraCor workshop between HUJI and the Free University (fingers crossed for the funding approval -- as Dennis put it, 'the application was well received' :) and hopefully there will be some Hebrew DraCor live meetings.
• Regardless of the workshop, we intend to meet again online once to discuss the next stage after we explore the existing resources