2018-11-26 | Heidelberg GODOT

workshop Non-Gregorian Calendar Dates in Digital Humanities

Jewish Calendar Dates

in epidat – Research Platform for Jewish Epigraphy

link to presentation https://kollatzthomas.github.io/godot

Thomas Kollatz | @kol_t | kollatzthomas | CC-BY 4.0

Jewish Calendar

• lunisolar calender
• cycle of 19 years used to bring lunar and solar year in common (metonic cycle)
  • a month begins with the new moon
  • festivals are related to seasons: Pessach – the festival to remember the Exodus from Egypt – took place in Spring

years, months, days

calculation of years

https://www.rosettacalendar.com/calendars.html#Hebrew

Some details … 

Liturgical Calendar

The Hebrew Calendar is a liturgical Calendar.
The following elements of Jewish religious life are calendar-based:

• the reading of the weekly Tora portions (פרשת השבוע). Lectio continua during the year. From time to time weeks are addressed by the title of the weekly portion: הלך לישיבה של מעלה ליל ש״ק פרשת שקלים ך״ז אדר ראשון שנת תמ״ח לפ״ק (bns-3024).
• the Jewish holidays.
• Yahrzeit, the day of death is commemoratated according to the Hebrew calendar.

Steinheim-Institute, library Aac44(30)

epidat

Research Platform for Jewish Epigraphy

epidat

• developed since 2002
• online since 2006
• driven by projects
• various disciplinary perspectives

scope

Languages

spatial relations

Workshop: IBR/RiR

Jewish Calendar dates in epidat

personal data

• date of death according to common date
• date of death according to hebrew date
• Link to edition (html)
• Link to edition (EpiDoc TEI XML)
• if possible, enriched by linked data

numbers

• 37.588 person datasets
• 24.124 date of death records (ISO 8601)

ffb-80-1

#yahrzeit

• comemmoration the death according to the corresponding Hebrew Date to the day of death

yahrzeit

#onthisday and search4date

• persons who died on today's date #onthisday
• more specific search4date

onthisday

yyyy
search4date=1318

yyyy-mm
search4date=1318-09

yyyy-mm-dd
search4date=1318-09-27

mm-dd
search4date=09-13

events

‎‏זה קבר של הרב ר׳ מאיר בר אברהם הכהן הזקן הנהרג על יחוד השם במ״א לפרט כ״ז בסיון ביום שנשרף בית הכנסת ונקרעו סיפרי תורה מנוחתו כבוד‏‎

mz1-2203 – foto LDA Mainz

name

Meir b. Awraham HaCohen

date

1281-06-15 | 27. Sivan 5041

event

destruction of the synagogue and the torascrolls: ביום שנשרף בית הכנסת ונקרעו סיפרי תורה

religious concept

הנהרג על יחוד השם

dislocation

tombstone was found by workmen on Juni, 5 1899 in the cellar of the inn "Zur Stadt Mainz" in the street "Große Bleiche"

Jewish dates in EpiDoc TEI XML

current state

<listPerson>
  <person xml:id="hha-3361-1" sex='1'>
   <persName>Schmuel ben Jehuda</persName>
   <death when="1621-08-17"/>
  </person>
  <listRelation>
   <relation name="parent" active="#hha-3361-1" passive="#hha-2437-1 #hha-6241-1"/>
   <relation name="spouse" mutual="#hha-3360-1 #hha-3361-1"/>
 </listRelation>
</listPerson>

hha-3361-teip5

upcoming

<listPerson>
 <person xml:id="hha-3361-1" sex="1">
  <persName>Schmuel ben Jehuda</persName>
  <death when="1621-08-17" calendar="#Jewish">30. Av 5381</death>
 </person>
 <listRelation>
  <relation name="parent" active="#hha-3361-1" passive="#hha-2437-1 #hha-6241-1"/>
  <relation name="spouse" mutual="#hha-3360-1 #hha-3361-1"/>
 </listRelation>
</listPerson>

tool used

Rosetta Calendar

one more thing … 

Date of Death given according to destruction of temple is quite common in late antiquity and early Middleages

date 429 CE to 429 CE

Inscriptions of Israel and Palestine, Zoor 0413

Sharing Data and calendar dates

PEACE Portal and DARIAH-DE … waiting on GODOT

	IIP – Inscriptions of Israel | Palestine	epidat – Database of Jewish Epigraphy	DIO – Deutsche Inschriften Online
online
quantity	3,589	34,800	ca. 18,000
time	500 BCE - 640 CE	midth 11th - 20th century	500-1650 CE
space	Israel | Palestine	Germany | The Netherlands | Czechia | Lithunia	Germany | Austria | South Tyrol
Genre	Different	Funeral Inscriptions	Different
Format	EpiDoc: TEI XML for Epigraphic Documents
Example	QUAMR0001	ffb-80	34-561

Software & Presentations

Software

• Impress.js (presentation)
• Magnific Popup (Lightbox)

Presentations

• Kollatz, Thomas. “Digitale Approaches to Cemeteries: Preservation and Education.” presented at the All that remains: Education and Conservation of Jewish Funerary Culture, Utrecht, June 12, 2018.
• Kollatz, Thomas. “Epigraphische Datenbanken zu den Schum-Gedenkstätten: Status Quo und Desiderata.” presented at the Intensivworkshop Informationssysteme, Mainz Coworking Area im Dock 39, March 5, 2018.
• Kollatz, Thomas. “epidat – Forschungsplattform zur jüdischen Grabsteinepigraphik: Edition, Kommentierung, Annotation, Visualisierung und Analyse jüdischer Grabmale aus neun Jahrhundert.” presented at the Vortragsreihe des IZED im Sommersemester 2018: Annotation Kommentar Erläuterung, Wuppertal, May 29, 2018.
• Kollatz, Thomas, and Max Grüntgens. “Annotieren, analysieren, visualisieren. Repositorien mergen, analysieren und visualisieren.” presented at the DARIAH-DE Grand Tour, Darmstadt, September 20, 2018.