ETCBC/bhsa: 2011-2017 data in text-fabric with version mappings

Versions of the data

This repo contains successive versions of the ETCBC database of the Hebrew Bible:

• 3 (2011)
• 4 (2014)
• 4b (2015)
• 2016
• 2017
• c, a continuous version, at this time nearly identical to 2017.

Documentation

Every version has feature documentation, but only versions 2016, 2017 and C have that documentation included in this repo. The entry point is the GitHub pages outlet of this repo: feature docs

Conversion and sources

All data has been converted into text-fabric format from ETCBC sources:

• an MQL database dump of the core database
• text files with additional information
  • lexcion
  • ketiv-qere
  • paragraphs

The source files are included in the repo, and the conversion programs (Jupyter notebooks) as well.

The conversion has been executed fully automatically by one run of the pipeline on 2017-10-10, in The Hague, running on the MacBook Pro van Dirk Roorda. The pipeline has performed some convenient tweaks, needed by the website SHEBANQ.

Additional data

The pipeline has also produced modules with additional research data, tied to the BHSA, in other repositories of the ETCBC organisation:

• phono
• parallels
• valence

Tutorials

There are also tutorials (Jupyter notebooks) in this repo.

Acknowledgements

To the ETCBC, for creating the data: Wido van Peursen for supporting Open Science; Martijn Naaijer, Christiaan Erwich, Cody Kingham for being enthousiastic users and contributors and for giving moral support; Janet Dyk for providing a challenging use case; Eep Talstra and Constantijn Sikkel for developing the method and sustaining it in software for decades.