Recording Available: Princeton Geniza Project Roundtable
On September 15, collaborators from the two-year research partnership between the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) and the Princeton Geniza Project (PGP) gathered for a virtual roundtable discussion moderated by CDH Executive Director Natalia Ermolaev and organized by Princeton Geniza Lab project manager Jessica Parker.
The event celebrated the launch of PGP v. 4, the new PGP database that allows users to search, filter, and view images and transcriptions of thousands of documents found in the geniza chamber of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo.
Among the topics of discussion were the features of the PGP database and website, the transition from a spreadsheet to a relational database for organizing and editing PGP data, and much more.
The panelists included:
- Zohar Bermann, former PGP assistant project manager
- Nick Budak, former CDH developer (now at Stanford Libraries)
- Gissoo Doroudian, CDH user experience designer
- Rachel Richman, former PGP project manager
- Marina Rustow, PGP co-PI and Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East
- Ben Silverman, Performant Software Solutions front-end developer
- Rebecca Sutton Koeser, PGP co-PI and CDH lead developer
Want to learn more?
Head to the PGP website and follow the Princeton Geniza Lab (@GenizaLab) on Twitter.