Balisage Paper: Biblical Scholarship in the GitHub Jungle

Balisage: The Markup Conference 2022
August 1 - 5, 2022

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Slides and Materials

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“Bible File Encoding for Bible Translators, Publishers, and Software Developers.” Accessed March 29, 2021. https://ebible.org/usfx/Bible-encoding.htm.

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GitHub. “Bridgeconn/Usfm-Grammar.” Accessed March 29, 2021. https://github.com/Bridgeconn/usfm-grammar.

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“Converting SFM Bibles to OSIS - CrossWire Bible Society.” Accessed April 2, 2021. https://wiki.crosswire.org/Converting_SFM_Bibles_to_OSIS.

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“Digital Bible Library.” Accessed March 25, 2021. https://app.thedigitalbiblelibrary.org/.

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DeRose, Steven. “Markup Overlap: A Review and a Horse,” n.d., 17.

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“EpiDoc: Epigraphic Documents in TEI XML / Home / Home.” Accessed March 27, 2021. https://sourceforge.net/p/epidoc/wiki/Home/.

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“Field Linguist’s Toolbox.” Accessed April 2, 2021. https://software.sil.org/toolbox/.

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“Paratext.” paratext.org

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“FieldWorks.” Accessed April 2, 2021. https://software.sil.org/fieldworks/.

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Glanz, Oliver. “Bible Software on the Workbench of the Biblical Scholar: Assessment and Perspective.” Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS) 56, no. 1 (July 19, 2018): 5–45.

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Graham, Tony, and Mark Howe. “EPUB: Chapter and Verse (presentation slides).” Accessed April 1, 2021. https://archive.xmlprague.cz/2011/presentations/graham-howe-epub.pdf.

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Grassick, Clayton, and Hart Wiens. “Paratext: User-Driven Development:” The Bible Translator, April 1, 2011. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/026009351106200205.

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“Haiola Scripture Publishing Software.” Accessed April 2, 2021. http://haiola.org/.

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Little, Chris. Chrislit/Usfm2osis. Python, 2021. https://github.com/chrislit/usfm2osis.

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“OSIS 2.1.1 User Manual 06March2006.pdf.” Accessed April 1, 2021. https://crosswire.org/osis/OSIS%202.1.1%20User%20Manual%2006March2006.pdf.

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“PTXprint – Bible Layout For Everyone - SIL Language Technology.” Accessed March 27, 2021. https://software.sil.org/ptxprint/.

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“Publishing Assistant.” Accessed March 27, 2021. https://pubassist.paratext.org/.

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“Rapidwords.Net |.” Accessed April 2, 2021. https://rapidwords.net/.

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Regt, Lénart J. de, and Kees de Blois. Of Translations, Revisions, Scripts and Software: Contributions Presented to Kees de Blois. Reading: United Bible Societies, 2011.

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Ryan. Adyeths/u2o. Python, 2021. https://github.com/adyeths/u2o.

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“Biblical Scholars, Standards and the SBL,” SBL Publications. Accessed March 27, 2021. https://www.sbl-site.org/publications/article.aspx?ArticleId=45.

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Bosak, Jon. “SGML, Java, and the Future of the Web (1996.11.17).” Accessed April 2, 2021. https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/sun-info/standards/xml/why/xmlapps.961117.htm.

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GitHub. “Sillsdev/Ptx2pdf.” Accessed April 2, 2021. https://github.com/sillsdev/ptx2pdf.

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“The Challenges — Proskomma 0.1 Documentation.” Accessed April 1, 2021. https://doc.proskomma.bible/en/latest/big_idea/challenges.html#why-is-usfm-so-popular.

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“The CrossWire Bible Society - OSIS - A Common Format for Multiple Visions.” Accessed April 1, 2021. https://crosswire.org/osis/.

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“USFM Documentation — Unified Standard Format Markers 3.0.0 Documentation.” Accessed March 25, 2021. https://ubsicap.github.io/usfm/.

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“Usfm/Usfm.Sty at Master · Ubsicap/Usfm · GitHub.” Accessed March 29, 2021. https://github.com/ubsicap/usfm/blob/master/sty/

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“USX Documentation — Unified Scripture XML 3.0.0 Documentation.” Accessed March 25, 2021. https://ubsicap.github.io/usx/.

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Vries, Lourens de. “Paratext and Skopos of Bible Translations.” Paratext and Megatext as Channels of Jewish and Christian Traditions, December 20, 2003, 176–93. doi:https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004421431_009.

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Winther-Nielsen, Nicolai. “Papers for the Copenhagen Workshop on Open Biblical Resources.” HIPHIL Novum 5, no. 2 (November 20, 2019): 1–5.

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“XQuery 3.0: An XML Query Language.” Accessed April 2, 2021. https://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-30/.

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Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew, edited by Reinier de Blois, with the assistance of Enio R. Mueller, ©2000-2021 United Bible Societies. Available online at https://semanticdictionary.org/.

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Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Greek, Semantic Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, based on Louw & Nida's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, ©1988-2021 United Bible Societies. Available online at https://semanticdictionary.org/.

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SIL Semantic Domains. Available online at https://semdom.org/.

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The Westminster Hebrew Syntax without Morphology (version 4.20 as of 2018-04-11). Copyright (C) 1991-2018 by The J. Alan Groves Center for Advanced Biblical Research. Available line at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/tree/main/sources/GrovesCenter

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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible. Available online at https://hb.openscriptures.org/. Data available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb.

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Internationalization Best Practices: Handling Right-to-left Scripts in XHTML and HTML Content. Available online at https://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/tech-bidi.html.

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MACULA Greek - Syntax trees, morphology, and linguistic annotations for the Greek New Testament. Clear Bible, Inc. Available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek.

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MACULA Hebrew - Syntax trees, morphology, and linguistic annotations for the Hebrew Bible. Clear Bible, Inc. Available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew.