2026 Corpora Release #1

[ctschroeder]

2026 Corpora for release

Timeline

REVIEW state by April 15, 2026
version date ~ 2026-05-31
version n 6.3.0

High Priority

Previously published corpora/docs with edits/updates

• pseudo.chrysostom canaanite woman
• sahidica.1corinthians 1Cor_15 & 1Cor_16
• shenoute.those
• john.constantinople
• proclus.homilies

Issues that should be addressed in this release

• ⲣⲙϩⲉ consistency (one word, no morphs)
• tagging of christos
• misc lemmatization issues
• check formatting in "redundant" metadata fields

Manually annotated high priority

• Magical papyri from Korshi & Sophie

• Life of Phib: translations have been added by R Komforty, review & metadata needed @ctschroeder

• Crislip material I Am Amazed @ctschroeder

  • see https://github.com/CopticScriptorium/shenoute-discourses123-dev/issues/1

• Bohairic Jonah (do not check off until this issue is complete

OCR high priority @ctschroeder

• OCR'd material in GitDox (requires sentence splitting, auto-NLP); see OCR google doc from June for details

  • Do not check off until checked off in the OCR checklist issue
  • apocalypse.paul (2)
  • Ps Cyril of Alexandria on Mary
  • ps Cyril of Jerusalem on the cross (3 docs)
  • ps Cyril of Jerusalem on Mary
  • ps John Chrysostom on Raphael
  • psepiphanius
  • pstimothy.alex
  • psote.psoi
  • timothy.discourse

• fully automatic tagging of OCR data in https://github.com/CopticScriptorium/OCR/tree/main/Processed%20OCR

  • Do not check off until checked off in the OCR checklist issue
  • Giron Life of Hilaria (Daughters of Zeno)
  • lit.fragments: Giron History of the Emperor's Daughter + Eve and the Serpent
  • life.chrysostom (aka Sacrifice of Abraham)
  • life.marina
  • all should be placed in https://github.com/CopticScriptorium/auto-corpora

Other fully automatic corpora

• Sahidica NT (due to correction of John 7/8)

Other Manual annotations

• Song of Solomon @stepcla
  • chapters 1-5 only
  • editorial review @ctschroeder
  • entities and identities @amir-zeldes

Arabic and English Translations only

• Into the Night

  • Arabic translation by @PhilippeZaher
  • validation by @ctschroeder

• Life of Longinus and Lucius Part 2

  • Arabic translation by Safaa Mahfouz
  • English translation by Randy Komforty
  • Arabic review by Matt B
  • validation, metadata, review @ctschroeder

Other desirables

• Jonah: minor dialects
• Sahidic Life of Antony (from HT, see June 2024 meeting notes)

Postponed

Manual high priority

• Gospel of Thomas
  • treebanked (+manual entities?)
  • translation
• So Listen (do not check off until this thread is complete) @ctschroeder
• Nag Hammadi Marcion
  • G Philip
• Crislip material I Am Amazed @ctschroeder
  • see https://github.com/CopticScriptorium/shenoute-discourses123-dev/issues/1
• Tito's editions? (need conversion to unicode, versification, metadata)
  • ** needs annotator assigned **
  • Encomium on Raphael
  • Cyril ?

Translation Work

• Life of Longinus and Lucius Part 3
  • Arabic translation by Safaa Mahfouz
  • English translation ?
  • validation, metadata, review @ctschroeder
• Life of Longinus and Lucius Part 4
  • Arabic translation by Safaa Mahfouz
  • English translation ?
  • validation, metadata, review @ctschroeder
• Life of Longinus and Lucius Part 5
  • Arabic translation by Safaa Mahfouz
  • English translation ?
  • validation, metadata, review @ctschroeder

Other manually annotated corpora

• ? Marcion: Resurrection of Jesus Christ (13 k words)
  • metadata
  • check pb xml:id's and ed_page_n's
  • if time check bound groups
  • chapters
  • FYI https://atlas.paths-erc.eu/manuscripts/191
• Life of Hilaria?

[ctschroeder]

It is April 16, so I am getting things ready for our next release. This thread will probably generate a bunch of questions over the next couple of weeks. :) To start, @amir-zeldes and @EarlyCodices for Bohairic Jonah: could you please double check the metadata, especially "gold" tagging/segmentation/parsing and the "Coptic Edition" field. Not sure what to put there as I think there is more than one print edition. For NT editions basically all derived from Horner, but I think for Bohairic Jonah there's more than one, and I think Hany's original digital edition looked at more than one.

[amir-zeldes]

Only S. Jonah is treebanked. Those metadata fields in B. Jonah must be copied. That said, I think I did a QA pass on B. Jonah segmentation and felt good about it, so I would say segmentation checked and parsing auto. @EarlyCodices did you do a tag check on B. Jonah? If so that would be checked as well (I only looked at the segmentation at the time).

[EarlyCodices]

Carrie and Amir, Yeah Boh Jonah is good on tagging. I didn't upload the text, but I'm pretty sure it's from Hany, right?

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[amir-zeldes]

Yes, I think the digitized version of the text is in various places online, but always ultimately from Hany

[ctschroeder]

@amir-zeldes as of 5/19 the following are checked off and ready for pub:
pseudo.chrysostom canaanite woman
sahidica.1corinthians 1Cor_15 & 1Cor_16
shenoute.those
john.constantinople
proclus.homilies

The following are ready and/or need entities/identities and then are ready:
life.phib
pscyril.alexandria.mary

In auto-corpus rep:
life.hilaria
life.chrysostom
life.empdaughter

More coming in the next days.

The default v date is 2026-05-31 but you can change it to the actual date you are using. v number is 6.3.0

[ctschroeder]

Correction @amir-zeldes the following are checked off and ready for pub:
pseudo.chrysostom canaanite woman
sahidica.1corinthians 1Cor_15 & 1Cor_16
shenoute.those
john.constantinople
proclus.homilies

The following are ready and/or need entities/identities and then are ready:
life.phib
pscyril.alexandria.mary

In auto-corpus rep:
life.hilaria
life.chrysostom
lit.fragments

More coming in the next days.

The default v date is 2026-05-31 but you can change it to the actual date you are using. v number is 6.3.0

[ctschroeder]

the auto-corpora are ready

• life.marina
• life.hilaria
• lit.fragments
• life.chrysostom