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Reclaiming a fragmented history

Digital humanities scholars are orchestrating an epic crowdsourcing effort to sort and transcribe handwriting on thousands of documents discarded hundreds of years ago, known as the Cairo Geniza.
Cairo Geniza
The Penn Libraries team reviews unique keyboards created for the Scribes of the Cairo Geniza crowdsourcing website to aid in deciphering text on the ancient fragments. From left: Laura Eckstein, Judaica digital humanities coordinator; Laurie Allen, director of digital scholarship; Yonatan Gutenmacher, rising sophomore and summer intern; and Amey Hutchins, a manuscript cataloging librarian.

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