CORPUS Projects, Publications, and Collections

CORPUS supports a wide range of digital efforts at the University of Chicago and elsewhere

CORPUS assists scholars and librarians at the University of Chicago and elsewhere in a wide range of digital efforts. These are categorized as active projects, peer-reviewed publications, or digital collections held in libraries and museums. CORPUS supports these as three separate activities and also makes it easy to move from one activity to another, because a research project will often lead to a publication or will produce data that is catalogued in a digital collection.

Projects

CORPUS facilitates data acquisition, management, analysis, and visualization for active projects involving research or pedagogy. As the data is being compiled it is kept private for internal use by the project directors and their collaborators. They are under no obligation to make their data public, but if they wish to do so they can easily create a self-published website, or they can submit a proposal to CORPUS to produce a peer-reviewed website under the imprint of the University of Chicago. In both cases, a website customized for their project will be automatically generated from the data they have stored in the OCHRE database platform.

The following projects at the University of Chicago and elsewhere have received support from CORPUS. Researchers are invited to contact the CORPUS staff by email at corpus@uchicago.edu to inquire about obtaining support for their projects.

Projects at the University of Chicago

Alexandra Township: Buying Back Ancestral Land (Thuto Thipe, Department of History, University of Chicago)
Capturing the Stars: Women’s Networks and the Advancement of Science at Yerkes Observatory, 1895–1940 (Richard Kron, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago)
CEDAR: Critical Editions for Digital Analysis and Research (Ellen MacKay, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago; Jeffrey Stackert, Divinity School, University of Chicago)
Chapakhana: Mapping the Spread of Print in South Asia (Ulrike Stark, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)
The Chicago Demotic Dictionary (Janet Johnson and Brian Muhs, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago)
The Chicago Hittite Dictionary (Theo van den Hout and Petra Goedegebuure, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago)
Cinemetrics (Yuri Tsivian and Maria Belodubrovskaya, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago)
The Craft Chronical (Erica Warren, Department of Art History, University of Chicago)
Cushitic-Omotic Morphological Index (Gene Gragg, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago)
Cyrillic Unicode font conversion (Meng Li, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)
DeepScribe: AI for Cuneiform Tablets (Sanjay Krishnan, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago; Miller Prosser, Sandra Schloen, and Jeffrey Tharsen, Forum for Digital Culture, University of Chicago; Edward Williams, independent scholar; Susanne Paulus, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago)
Demotic Ostraca Online (Foy Scalf and Brian Muhs, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago)
Digital Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese 古漢語詞源字典 (Jeffrey Tharsen, Forum for Digital Culture, University of Chicago)
Egypt, the Levant, and the Rise of the Alphabet (Anna-Latifa Mourad-Cizek, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago; Aren Wilson-Wright, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago)
The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Foy Scalf and Brian Muhs, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago; Rita Lucarelli, University of California, Berkeley)
Excavations at Cerro del Villar, Spain (David Schloen, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago; Carolina López-Ruiz, Divinity School and Department of Classics, University of Chicago; José Suárez Padilla, University of Málaga)
Excavations at Corral Redondo, Peru (Maria Cecilia “Nené” Lozada, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago)
Excavations at Nineveh, Iraq (Timothy P. Harrison, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago; Khaled Abu Jayyab, University of Toronto)
Excavations at Nippur, Iraq (Augusta McMahon, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago)
Excavations at Tell Keisan, Israel (David Schloen, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago; Gunnar Lehmann, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Bernd Schipper, Humboldt University of Berlin)
Excavations at Tell Tayinat, Turkey (Timothy P. Harrison, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago)
Excavations at Tel Yaqush, Israel (Yorke Rowan and David Schloen, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, University of Chicago)
Excavations at Tiwanaku, Bolivia (Alan Kolata, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago)
Excavations at the Tomb of Khentika in the Teti Cemetery, Saqqara, Egypt (Anna-Latifa Mourad-Cizek, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago; Naguib Kanawati, Macquarie University)
Excavations at Zincirli, Turkey (David Schloen, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago; Virginia Herrmann, United States Department of State; Kathryn Morgan, Duke University)
FIORE: The “Florence Illuminated” Online Research Environment (Niall Atkinson, Department of Art History and Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago; Anne Leader, University of Virginia; George Bent, Washington and Lee University; Peter Sposato, Indiana University; Lorenzo Vigotti, University of Bologna)
Gathering and Researching Images from Orlando Furioso (Federica Caneparo, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago)
Gender and Politics in Early Modern European Republics: Venice and Genoa, 15th to 18th centuries (Maria Adank, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Chicago)
Genomes, Migrations, and Culture in the Early Civilizations of the Middle East (John Novembre and Maanasa Raghavan, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago; James Osborne and David Schloen, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago)
An Index to the Chant of the Mozarabic Rite (Don Randel, Department of Music, University of Chicago)
An Interactive Map of French Art Deco Sites in Chicago (Elissa Weaver, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago)
Intertextuality: Zhuangzi versus the Taoishō (Haun Saussy, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago)
Investigation of Greek Coin Hoards (Alain Bresson, Department of Classics, University of Chicago)
Italian Women Writers (Elissa Weaver, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago)
Liaozhai zhiyi: Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Judith Zeitlin, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago; Rania Huntington, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Mapping Energy History (Elisabeth Moyer, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago; Robert Suits, University College London; Nathan Matteson, DePaul University)
Marathi Online (Philip Engblom†, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)
Megiddo 3: Final Report on the Stratum VI Excavations (Timothy P. Harrison, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago)
Messkataloge Digital Database (David Kretz, Ph.D. student, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago)
METEOR: Middle Egyptian Text Editions for Online Research (Janet Johnson, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago)
Modern Philology Metadata (Timothy Campbell, Timothy M. Harrison, and Josephine McDonagh, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago)
A National Repository of Policing Data for Ethical Research (Christopher Graziul, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago; Brooke Luetgert, Forum for Digital Culture, University of Chicago)
An Organon for the Information Age (David Schloen, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago; Samuel Volchenboum, Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago; Malte Willer, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago)
Ottoman Inscriptions Project (Hakan Karateke, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago)
Pathology Logbook Project (Melissa Tjota, Department of Pathology, University of Chicago)
Patterning Textile History (Molly Laumakis, Forum for Digital Culture, University of Chicago)
People of the Green Sahara: Excavations at Gobero, Niger (Paul Sereno, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago)
Persepolis Fortification Archive (Matthew Stolper, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago; Wouter Henkelman, École Pratique des Hautes Études; Annalisa Azzoni, Vanderbilt University; Mark Garrison, Trinity University, San Antonio)
Ras Shamra Tablet Inventory (Miller Prosser, Forum for Digital Culture, University of Chicago; Dennis Pardee, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago)
Sereno Fossil Lab (Paul Sereno, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago)
Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew and Early Modern Domestic Culture (Ellen MacKay, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago)
Shang Clan Signs Project (Yung-ti Li, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)
Sign and Gesture Archive (Diane Brentari, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago; Susan Goldin-Meadow, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago)
Slavic Graduate Student Resource List (Anne Eakin Moss, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago)
Smart to the Core: Wise to Power Exhibit (Jennifer Spruill, The College, University of Chicago)
South Side Home Movie Project (Jacqueline Stewart, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago)
Spoken Yucatec Maya (John Lucy, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago)
Translational Networks and the Stakes of Comparison: Convergences and Crossings Between Arabic and Hebrew (Na‘ama Rokem, Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago; Dima Ayoub, Middlebury College)
Village Harmony: South African Choral Music (Mollie Stone, Department of Music, University of Chicago)
What Was Theatre in 1609? (Ellen MacKay, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago)

Projects at other institutions

Amache Research Project (Bonnie Clark, University of Denver; April Kamp-Whittaker, University of New Mexico)
The American Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus (Pamela Gaber, Lycoming College; Andrew Wright, University of Chicago)
CLEMENT: Commerce and Law in Early Modern England, Transcribed (Emily Kadens, Northwestern University)
The Conrad Akko Excavation Publication Project (Martin Peilstöcker and Wolfgang Zwickel, University of Mainz)
Corinth Excavations, Roman Pottery from East of the Theater, 1981–1990 (Kathleen Warner Slane, University of Missouri, Columbia)
CRANE: Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (Timothy P. Harrison, University of Chicago [formerly University of Toronto]; Lisa Cooper, University of British Columbia; Michel Fortin, Laval University; Sturt Manning, Cornell University; Graham Philip, Durham University; David Schloen, University of Chicago)
Database of Afro-Asiatic Basic Lexicon (Brendan Hainline, Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Database of Roman to Early Islamic Bathhouses of Iudaea/Syria-Palaestina and Provincia Arabia (Arleta Kowalewska, University of Haifa)
Embodied Faith (Noria Litaker, University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
E-Rhetoric: A Handwritten Text Recognition Infrastructure for Medieval Greek (Aglae Pizzone and Byron MacDougall, University of Southern Denmark)
The Excavation of Antioch-on-the-Orontes 1932—1939 (Alan Stahl and Julia Gearhart, Princeton University; Andrea De Giorgi, Florida State University; Asa Eger, University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
Excavations at Ashkelon, Israel (Lawrence Stager†, Harvard University; Daniel Master, Wheaton College; David Schloen, University of Chicago)
Excavations at Hippos (Sussita), Israel (Michael Eisenberg and Arleta Kowalewska, University of Haifa)
Excavations at Shengavit, Armenia (Mitchell Rothman, Widener University and University of Pennsylvania)
Excavations at Tel Gezer, Israel (Steven Ortiz, Lipscomb University; Samuel Wolff, Israel Antiquities Authority)
Excavations at Tell el-Judaidah, Turkey — Publication Project (Lynn Swartz Dodd, University of Southern California)
Excavations at Tell Qarqur, Syria (Rudolph Dornemann, Milwaukee Public Museum; Jesse Casana, Dartmouth College)
Excavations at Tel Shimron, Israel (Daniel Master, Wheaton College; Mario Martin, University of Innsbruck)
Excavations at Tell Zeitah, Israel (Ron Tappy, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary)
Gadachrili Gora Regional Archaeology Project, Republic of Georgia (Stephen Batiuk and Khaled Abu Jayyab, University of Toronto; Mindia Jalabadze, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi)
Historical Architecture in Disaster Zones: Digital Documentation, Archiving, and Preservation (Patricia Blessing, Stanford University)
Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project (Aaron Burke, University of California, Los Angeles; Martin Peilstöcker, University of Mainz)
Melville Electronic Library (John Bryant, Hofstra University; Christopher Ohge, University of London; Wyn Kelley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The Peripheral Manuscripts Project: Digitizing Medieval Manuscript Collections in the Midwest (Elizabeth Hebbard and Michelle Dalmau, Indiana University, Bloomington; Ian Cornelius, Loyola University Chicago; Sarah Noonan, St. Mary’s College)
Piers Plowman and Late Medieval England (Ian Cornelius, Loyola University Chicago; Timothy Stinson, North Carolina State University)
Reimagining Royal Space: The Qilij Arslan II Kiosk in Konya, Turkey (Patricia Blessing, Stanford University; Richard McClary, University of York)
Washo Documentation Project (Alan Yu, University of California, Berkeley)

Peer-Reviewed Publications

In addition to providing data management and analysis for active projects, CORPUS can produce durable and citable peer-reviewed publications in the form of websites that have ISBN numbers and are catalogued in library catalogues. This entails the submission of a publication proposal, peer review of both the proposal and the final product, and professional editing of the published content, just as one would do for a printed book.

Authors may engage with CORPUS by submitting a publication proposal at the outset, if they know what they want to publish and have already compiled the data. Alternatively, a potential author may first set up a project to compile data in the OCHRE database and develop ideas about what to publish, and then submit a publication proposal.

The following peer-reviewed publications are currently in progress with several others in the proposal stage:

The Chicago Digital Bible (Jeffrey Stackert and Sarah Yardney, University of Chicago; Doren Snoek, St. Andrews University; Ronald Hendel, University of California, Berkeley)
Landscapes of Ancient Persia through Cold War Surveillance Eyes (Mehrnoush Soroush, Dominik Lukas, and Ruijie Yao, University of Chicago)
Spiritual Atlas of the Global East (Fenggang Yang, Purdue University; Charles Chang, Duke Kunshan University)
Thinking Music: Global Sources for the History of Music Theory (Thomas Christensen, University of Chicago; Carmel Raz, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics; Lester Hu, University of California, Berkeley)

Library Collections

CORPUS helps librarians, archivists, and museum curators to catalogue and manage digital collections. These collections contain data from research projects or from digitizing non-digital materials by scanning paper documents and photographs, 3D modeling of artifacts, and digitizing analog films and sound recordings.

The digital collections held in the University of Chicago Library are being managed and made discoverable via UChicagoNode, which runs on the OCHRE database platform maintained by CORPUS. The following collections are currently being added to UChicagoNode: