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	Perspectives on Technology Heidi Lerner's Column in AJS Perspectives Links to Resources Discussed in the Column Spring 2011 "Jewish Studies 'Born Digital'" Fall 2010 "Online Resources for Talmud Research, Study, and Teaching Fall 2009 "Online Resources for Jewish Economics" Spring 2009 "Scholarly Communication in the Twenty-first Century: A Changing Landscape" Fall 2008 "New Tools for Jewish Linguistics" Spring 2008 "Researching Orthodox Judaism Online" Fall 2007 "Web-Based Learning and Teaching Resources for Jewish Studies" Spring 2007 "Internet Resources for Jewish Biography and Autobiography" Fall 2006 "Jewish Political Studies on the Internet" Spring 2006 "Sharing Knowledge: Recent Trends in Search and Delivery Tools for Scholarly Content" Spring 2005 "Treasure Hunting for New Judaic Resources on the World Wide Web" Fall 2004 "Electronic Books in the Academic World and the Implications for Jewish Studies" Spring 2004 "Hebrew in Bits and Bytes: An Introduction to Coding and Formatting of Hebrew Electronic Resources" Fall 2003 "Historic Jewish Periodicals/Newspapers and the Web" "Jewish Studies 'Born Digital'," Spring 2011 Click here to view full article. Born-Digital E-books ACLS Humanities E-Book project Online Journals Quntres: An Online Journal for the History, Culture, and Art of the Jewish Book Quest: Issues in Contemporary Jewish History; Perush The Journal of Inter-religious Dialogue Geographic Tools HyperCities eRuv: A Street History in Semacode Born-Digital Literature and the Arts Bama Hadasah Israeli Center for Digital Art Web2 Wired Campus Seforim Academia.edu Born-Digital Information Management Ismar Elbogen Netzwerk für jüdische Kulturgeschichte e.V. JewLib. Digital Archive-Library "Online Resources for Talmud Research, Study, and Teaching," Fall 2010 Click here to view full article. Full Text Sifrut ha-Kodesh Mechon Mamre Digitized Book Repository Talmud Bavli Soncino Babylonian Talmud Primary Textual Witnesses to Tannaitic Literature Tosefta Online Talmud Yerushalmi Responsa Project Manuscripts Online Treasury of Talmudic Manuscripts First printed edition of the Yerushalmi Largest single collection of Cairo Genizah fragments Friedberg Genizah Project Websites and Tools Page from the Babylonian Talmud Chapters of the Talmud The Babylonian Talmud Research Guide Index to Commentaries on Aggadot of the Talmud A Proposed Guide for Citing Rabbinic Texts Database of Midrashic Units in the Mishnah Dictionaries Marcus Jastrow's A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature - PDF \| Searchable The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Blogs Talmud Blog Menachem Mendel Hagahot On the Main Line Daf Yomi Dafyomi Advancement Forum E-Daf.com DafYomi.org MyShiur.net New Directions Talmud Project Collaborative Research Centre at the University of Cologne CHAT: a System for Stylistic Classification of Hebrew-Aramaic Text Computer-assisted method for Cairo Genizah research "Online Resources for Jewish Economics," Fall 2009 Click here to view full article. North America Data Archives/Statistical Information American Religious Data Archives North American Jewish Data Bank National Jewish Population Survey American Jewish Identity Survey American Jewish Committee Resources on Nonprofits Steven Windmueller. “The Unfolding Economic Crisis: Its Devastating Implications for American Jewry,” working paper no. 47 (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs' Institute for Global Jewish Affairs, 2009). GuideStar National Center for Charitable Statistics Charity Navigator Israel Statistical, Economic, and Demographic Data The Economist’s Country Briefings Israel Federation of International Trade Associations Israel Country Profile Exportnavigator Israel Social Sciences Data Center Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel Bank of Israel Israel Ministry of Finance Israel Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Labor National Insurance Institute of Israel Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Jewish Law and Secular Life Center for Halacha and American Law's Jewish law website "Scholarly Communication in the Twenty-first Century: A Changing Landscape," Spring 2009 Click here to view full article. General Resolution concerning scholarly publishing, Cornell University Faculty Senate, May 11, 2005 National Institute of Health public access law, January 2008 Requirement for researchers to deposit articles in open access repository, Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, February 2008 Statement affirming preference for high-quality, affordable textbooks, released by one thousand professors, April 2008 "Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication," report by Association of Research Libraries (ARL), in association with Ithaka Strategic Services, Autumn 2008 Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, a search tool for items once but no longer online Open Access and Institutional Repositories Open Access, Peer-Reviewed Journals Azure: Ideas for the Jewish Nation Eras Jewish Studies, an Internet Journal Min-Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology Online Studia Judaica Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Journal of Hebrew Scriptures Women in Judaism Quntres Open Journal Systems Open-Access University Repositories eScholarship Repository, University of California and the California Digital Library ScholarlyCommons@Penn, University of Pennsylvania Other Repositories Social Science Research Network arXiv.org Listservs and Discussion Forums Jewish Studies Network H-Judaic H-Antisemitism H-Holocaust Jewish Languages Mendele: Yiddish Literature and Yiddish Language Sephardi Mizrahi Studies Caucus Discussion List Blogs Hagahot, by Pinchas Roth (Manuscriptboy) Michtavim, by Menachem Butler Tradition Seforim, edited by Menachem Butler and Dan Rabinowtiz Open Access Textbooks Pe’er, Open University of Israel MIT OpenCourseWare Program E-Books Google Book Settlement FAQ Center for Educational Technology "New Tools for Jewish Linguistics," Fall 2008 Click here to view full article. General Jewish Language Research Website Annotated Corpora Hebrew Treebank Version 2.0, Mila Knowledge Center for Processing Hebrew, Technion Jan H. Kroeze, "Building and Displaying a Biblical Hebrew Linguistics Data Cube Using XML," presented at the Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics (ISCOL) Conference, Haifa, Israel, June 2006. Mila Knowledge Center for Processing Hebrew, Technion Yiddish Texts Annotated Corpus by Beatrice Santorini Unannotated Corpora HebrewWikisource Project Ben-Yehuda Yiddish Wikipedia Dictionaries Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon, Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati Hebrew Wiktionary Maagarim, the Historical Dictionary Project (HDP) Morfix Dictionary, Melingo Company Rav-Milim, Melingo Company Yiddish Dictionary Online Audio and Sound Collections Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora Dialect Atlas of the Surviving North Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialects (information page only) Eydes: Evidence of Yiddish Documented in European Societies Librivox Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften SemArch, University of Heidelberg The UNESCO Red Book on Endangered Languages: Europe Yeled V’Yalda Multilingual Development and Education Research Institute Tools for the Twenty-first Century Directory of Yiddish Blogs Electronic Edition of a Historic Judeo-Spanish Text, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3 Hashkafah.com Heeb Magazine Jewish English: Distinctive Lexicon (beta version) Jewish Language Research Wiki Ladinomunita, online discussion group "Researching Orthodox Judaism Online," Spring 2008 Click here to view full article. Orthodox Judaism and the Media Arutz Sheva Israel National News Ba-Kehilah Compact Memory Deot ha-Tsofeh HebrewBooks.org Kol Hai Meorot: A Forum of Modern Orthodox Discourse Mispacha Organizational Websites Aish ha-Torah Chabad.org Daat Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA) Keren Yishai Kolech-Religious Women’s Forum Machon Meir Institute of Jewish Studies Rabbinical Council of America Shofar Tzohar Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America Virtual Beit Midrash, Yeshivat Har Etzion YU Torah Online, Yeshiva University Communication within Orthodox and Haredi Communities Be-ahavah u’be-emunah, Machon Meir Beit El Yeshiva Birkat Yosef Hesder Yeshiva at Elon Moreh Daf Yomi resources, Kollel Iyun Hadaf Haredi forum directories, Modiya, New York University Hebron Jewish community Kol tsofayikh, teachings of Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu Orthodox Jewish feminist blogs, Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA) Rabbi Daniel Zer, downloadable sermons Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Maron Rabbi Shalom Arush, spiritual leader of Sephardic followers of Bratslav Hasidism Shabat be-shabato, Moreshet Sharei Schechem Sikhat ha-ge’ulah, Chabad Sikhat ha-shavu‘a, Chabad Yesha Rabbinical Council (Va’ad Rabane Yesha) Archival Resources Archive-It "Web-Based Learning and Teaching Resources for Jewish Studies," Fall 2007 Click here to view full article. Teaching Resources Center for Advanced Research and Language Acquisition (CARLA), University of Minnesota Center for Online Judaic Studies (COJS) Hebrew Program at the University of Texas at Austin Hebrew@Stanford Multimeia MODIYA Project: Jews/Media/Religion, New York University Software DSpace Virage Videologger "Internet Resources for Jewish Biography and Autobiography," Spring 2007 Click here to view full article. Directories, Biographical Dictionaries, and Encyclopedias American National Biography Online, Oxford University Press (by subscription) Biography Reference Bank, H. W. Wilson (by subscription) Biography Resource Center, Gale Group (by subscription) Hebrew Author Database, Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Modern Hebrew Literature—a Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon, The Ohio State University Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (by subscription) World Biographical Index, K. G. Saur (by subscription) Websites and Portals Franz-Kafka-Website Jewish Music Webcenter Saul Bellow Society Primary Sources: Digital Collections of Primary Sources 1. Archives: Finding Aids California Digital Library's Online Archive of California Center for Jewish History 2. Archives: Databases and Websites Einstein Archives Online Emma Goldman Online Exhibit Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust: Testimonies, Yale University In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives, Alexander Street Press Jewish Women's Archive North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories, Alexander Street Press (by subscription) North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Alexander Street Press (by subscription) Sabato Morais Ledger USC Shoah Foundation Institute 3. Online Diaries and Weblogs Articles Michael Keren,“Online Life Writing: One Israeli's Search for Sanity,” Auto/Biography 13, 2005. William O'Shea, "The Sharer of Secrets: Anonymous Blog Cracks Window Into Hasidic Community," Village Voice, July 22, 2003. Edward Portnoy, "Haredim and the Internet," Modiya website, 2004. Sites del.icio.us flickr.com Israblog JewishBlogging.com Jrants.com YouTube.com "Jewish Political Studies on the Internet," Fall 2006 Click here to view full article. Gateways Israel Government Gateway Politics: General Israel/Jewish Politics, Israel/Arab Relations Listservs and Discussion Lists H-Judaic (Jewish Studies Network, JSN) H-NET (Humanities and Social Sciences Online) PSRT-L (Political Science Research and Teaching List) Think Tanks and Research Organizations Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University The Harry S. Truman Center for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem Israel Democracy Institute Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information Israel Policy Forum Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel-Aviv University Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel-Aviv University Shalem Center Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, Tel-Aviv University Taub Center for Social Policy Studies Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Online Collections and Research Arab-Israel Research Projects, The Harry S Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Daniel Elazar On-Line Library, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Political Research Online Multimedia (Sound and Visuals) Israel Government Press Office Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution Jewish Webcasting Guide Live from the Knesset Online Speech Bank United Nations Webcasts University of Texas Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collections Full-text Databases, Journals, and Books Azure Expanded Academic ASAP (by subscription) Hebraica Political Studies Jewish Political Studies Review SAGE Full-Text Collection for Political Science (by subscription) Statistical Data Association of Religion Data Archives Mandell L Berman Institute–North American Jewish Data Bank State of Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics "Sharing Knowledge: Recent Trends in Search and Delivery Tools for Scholarly Content," Spring 2006 Click here to view full article. Digitized Publications Bibliotheca Alexandrina, International School of Information Science (ISIS) Google Book Search Google Scholar Israel Scholar Works Israel Union Catalog Open Content Alliance (OCA) Project Muse (by subscription) Blogs History on Trial PaleoJudaica.com RSS RSS Feeds for Recently Cataloged Titles, University Libraries, University of Alabama "Treasure Hunting for New Judaic Resources on the World Wide Web," Spring 2005 Click here to view full article. Digital Resources on Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews, University of California, Davis The Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, University of Pennsylvania Semitisches Tonarchiv (SemArch ), Seminar für Sprachen und Kulturen des Vorderen Orients Semitistik, Universität Heidelberg Subject Portals Academic Guide to Jewish History, University of Toronto Libraries Humbul Humanities Hub, Research Discovery Network and Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford University Jewish History Resource Center, Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Open Archives Initiative (OAI) OAIster, University of Michigan Video Repositories Library of Congress American History Project OpenVideo Project T-Space University of Toronto’s Institutional Repository "Electronic Books in the Academic World and the Implications for Jewish Studies," Fall 2004 Click here to view full article. Academic and Jewish Studies Electonic Book Resources Bibliotheca Rosenthalia’s Menasseh ben Israel collection California Digital Library Digital Library Federation eScholarship Editions Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France HebrewBooks.org History E-book Project, American Council of Learned Societies Jewish National and University Library Digitized Book Repository Mechon Mamre Project Ben-Yehudah Project Gutenberg Text Encoding Initiative Commercial Vendors of Electronic Books eBrary netLibrary Questia "Hebrew in Bits and Bytes: An Introduction to Coding and Formatting of Hebrew Electronic Resources," Spring 2004 Click here to view full article. Code2000 and Code2001 Fonts (shareware) SIL Ezra Hebrew Unicode Fonts (freeware) "Historic Jewish Periodicals/Newspapers and the Web," Fall 2003 Click here to view full article. Free Jewish Periodicals/Newspapers Online: The Compact Memory Project The Jewish Press Site at Tel-Aviv University The Society for the Preservation of Hebrew Books Jewish Periodicals/Newspapers Online by Subscription: American Theological Library Association Serials (ATLAS) JSTOR Periodical Index Online (formerly, Periodicals Contents Index, PCI) Additional Resources: Digital Library Federation Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging, Research Libraries Group RLG DigiNews (From the Research Libraries Group) Ronald W. Zweig, “Lessons from the Palestine Post Project,” Literary and Linguistic Computing 13: 2 (1998): 89–95.