<oo> obdurodon.org

Maintained by: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) Last modified: 2013-01-26T18:15:34+0000 About this site: obdurodon.org is the development platform for David J. Birnbaum’s digital humanities projects.

Digital humanities projects hosted on obdurodon.org

<aal> The annotated Afanas′ev library ↴

URL: http://aal.obdurodon.org Developers: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) and David Galloway (galloway@hws.edu), with the assistance of Audrey Wood and Maria Rogers Synopsis: Selected Russian fairy tales from the Aleksandr Afanas′ev collection with glosses and linguistic and cultural annotation. Designed to assist students in learning to read Russian fairy tales in the original Russian.

<acl> Concordance to Alain de Lille’s Anticlaudianus ↴

URL: http://acl.obdurodon.org Developers: Danuta Shanzer (shanzer@illinois.edu) and David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) Synposis: Online concordance of Alain de Lille’s (Alanus ab insulis) allegorical-philosophical epic, the Anticlaudianus.

<bs> Bdinski sbornik ↴

URL: http://bdinski.obdurodon.orgDevelopers: Dieter Stern (dieter.stern@ugent.be), Lara Sels (lara.sels@ugent.be), Michel de Dobbeleer (michel.dedobbeleer@ugent.be), and David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com)Synopsis: Digital edition of the Middle Bulgarian Bdinski sbornik

<дз> Daniel the Prisoner: A virtual florilegium ↴

URL: http://zatochnik.obdurodon.org Developers: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com), Robert Romanchuk (rromanch@mailer.fsu.edu) and Matthew Herrington Synopsis: An XML-based medieval florilegium. Electronic edition of the Slovo i molenie Daniila Zatočnika.

<dh> Digital humanities: Computational methods in the humanities ↴

URL: http://dh.obdurodon.org Developer: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) Synopsis: Materials for a course entitled “Computational methods in the humanities.”

<пвл> The e-PVL: An electronic edition of the Rus′ primary chronicle ↴

URL: http://pvl.obdurodon.org Developers: Donald Ostrowski (don@wjh.harvard.edu), David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com), and Horace G. LuntSynopsis: Electronic edition of the Rus′ Primary Chronicle (Povest′ vremennykh let). Read the text and examine manuscript variants.

<ик> Exploring Russian festal icons ↴

URL: http://icon.obdurodon.orgDevelopers: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com), Erin Alpert, Irina Anisimova, Hillary Brevig, Alyssa DeBlasio, Julie Draskoczy, Olga Klimova, and Elise ThorsenSynopsis: Utility for studying the structure of Russian festal icons.

<ft> Exploring speech in Russian fairy tales ↴

URL: http://ft.obdurodon.orgDevelopers: Gabrielle Kirilloff (gkirilloff@gmail.com) and David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) Synopsis: Employs digital humanities techniques to analyze the use of speech in Russian fairy tales from the Afanas′ev collection.

<rg> Rusian genealogy: Using technology to showcase medieval familial interconnectivity ↴

URL: http://genealogy.obdurodon.orgDevelopers: Christian Raffensperger (craffensperger@wittenberg.edu) and David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) Synopsis: XML database for examining Riurikid dynastic marriages.

<gk> Digital humanities projects by Gabrielle Kirilloff ↴

URL: http://gk.obdurodon.orgDeveloper: Gabrielle Kirilloff (gkirilloff@gmail.com) Synopsis: Assorted digital humanities projects developed by Gabrielle Kirilloff.

<лаз> Lazov font for early Slavic studies ↴

URL: (currently off line)Developers: Rumjan Lazov and David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com)Synopsis: Unicode-compatible font for early Cyrillic. Original design by Rumjan Lazov, updated for Unicode 5.1 compatibility by David J. Birnbaum.

<лих> An electronic edition of the 1899 N. P. Lixačev watermark album ↴

URL: (currently off line)Developers: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com), Roger Boyle (r.d.boyle@leeds.ac.uk), Quinn Dombrowski (quinnd@uchicago.edu), Predrag Matejić (matejic.1@osu.edu), and Kia Ng (k.c.ng@leeds.ac.uk)Synopsis: Electronic edition of N. P. Lixačev’s 1899 watermark album.

<mm> Menaion medieval font for early Slavic studies ↴

URL: (currently off line)Developers: Viktor Baranov and David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com)Synopsis: Unicode-compatible font for early Cyrillic. Design by Viktor Baranov, remapped for Unicode compatibility by David J. Birnbaum.

<men> Electronic collation of medieval Slavic calendars of saints ↴

URL: http://menology.obdurodon.orgDevelopers: Cynthia Vakareliyska (vakarel@uoregon.edu) and David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com)Synopsis: A corpus of medieval Slavic and Greek calendars of saints that can be searched according to specific attributes of the manuscripts themselves and the commemorations they contain. The goal is to provide scholars with a large but manageable corpus of data for comparative study of calendar traditions, determination of the relationships between and among calendars, and analysis of any individual calendar.

<ocs> Old Church Slavonic glossary ↴

URL: http://obdurodon.org:8080/exist/ocs/glossary.htmlDevelopers: Oscar Swan (swan@pitt.edu) and David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com)Synopsis: Look up words in a glossary of Old Church Slavonic.

<ps> The life of Paul the Simple from the Codex Suprasliensis ↴

URL: http://paul.obdurodon.orgDevelopers: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com), Erin Alpert, Hillary Brevig, Drew Chapman, Alyssa DeBlasio, Julie Draskoczy, Yelena Forrester, Olga Klimova, Michelle Kuhn, Raffaele Ruggiero, Oscar Swan, and Elise ThorsenSynopsis: The “life of Paul the Simple” from the Old Church Slavonic Codex Suprasliensis with linguistic commentary, parallel Greek text, and a new English translation.

<kp> Karolina Pavlova’s Double life ↴

URL: http://pavlova.obdurodon.org Developers: Sibelan E. S. Forrester (sforres1@swarthmore.edu) and David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) Synopsis: Tools for studying Karolina Pavlova’s 1848 sketch Двойная жизнь (Double life).

<rep> The repertorium of old Bulgarian literature and letters ↴

URL: http://repertorium.obdurodon.orgDevelopers: Anisava Miltenova (Anisava Miltenova), David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com), and Andrej Bojadžiev (aboy@slav.uni-sofia.bg). For a list of additional participants see http://obdurodon.org/repertorium/#participantsSynopsis: An archive of XML-encoded descriptions of medieval Slavic manuscript materials and research tools intended to aid in their study.

<sup> Codex Suprasliensis ↴

URL: http://suprasliensis.obdurodon.orgDevelopers: Anisava Miltenova (amiltenova@gmail.com), David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com)Synopsis: Digital edition of the Old Church Slavonic Codex Suprasliensis

<tw> Twitter register variation ↴

URL: http://twitter.obdurodon.orgDeveloper: Janis Chinn (janis.chinn@gmail.com) Synopsis: Corpus-based study of linguistic properties of English-language tweets.

<mrv> Metrical analysis of Russian verse ↴

URL: http://verse.obdurodon.orgDeveloper: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com)Synopsis: Computer-generated representations of the metrical structure of selected Russian poetry.

Publications by David J. Birnbaum

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Miscellaneous

• Gin: a life list. After all, birders keep a list of all of the birds they’ve ever seen.
• Why an obdurodon? The other monotremes were all taken.