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The Seventh Birmingham Colloquium

Written by on April 1, 2011 .

The Seventh Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament was held between 28-31 March 2011, with the title "Early Christian Writers and the Text of the New Testament" and was a great success.

The Colloquium was held in Elmfield House, University of Birmingham. Also included was a trip to Lichfield Cathedral, which coincided with their 2011 Bible Exhibition (featuring the Chad Gospels) and included a tour of the Library.

Some reaction on the Evangelical Textual Criticism blog: News from Birmingham and First Report from Birmingham Colloquium 2011

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Birmingham Collation Bootcamp

Written by on March 16, 2011 .

Birmingham Collation Bootcamp

The Birmingham Collation Bootcamp will be held in the University of Birmingham from the 7th to the 9th of June 2011. If you want to register, or want further information, please email Zeth using z.a.green@bham.ac.uk

Scholars from ITSEE in Birmingham and INTF in Münster have been collating manuscript transcriptions with Collate2 since 1997 and still are using it. We have also recently started working with the KompZe team in Trier. 

The purpose of this bootcamp is to bring these users together with CollateX developers in order to test, improve and implement CollateX, in particular to ...

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Exposed Data Workshop

Written by on Feb. 3, 2011 .

On Wednesday February 2nd 2011 we held our first Electronic Text Workshop on the topic of "exposed data".

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The event was held in the John Kydd Room so I was somewhat concerned that everyone would fit in! The whole room has one power socket, so lets not think about that overloaded series of extension leads...

John Pinner

The first talk was by John Pinner from ClockSoft (above) on "Archive systems and non-relational databases". These were CouchDB and MongoDB. John showed a very interesting test comparisons showing that for at least for his data sets, Mongo was an order of magntitude faster.

Rosalind MacLachlan

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