In a recent article, Claire Clivaz surveys the rise of VREs (Virtual Research Environments) that allow for scientific hypothesis-driven, iterative, and collaborative research in the Humanities. In this presentation, we propose a new kind of VRE, the Linked Open Data Living Informational Book or LODLIB, essentially a scientific hypothesis-driven iterative digital codex. LODLIBs follow the structure of scientific articles (introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion), leverage international Linked Open Data standards (unique and interconnected DOIs), rely on non-commercial Open Science repositories, include internal data dictionaries and lexicographical resources, embed datasets and code within the digital book, invite global open peer-review and collaboration, and allow for cycles of continuous improvement characteristic of software and systems development. Essentially, the LODLIB reimagines the codex as human- and machine-readable software, bringing together research and publishing, the Sciences and the Humanities. The LODLIB format inverts the power- and economic relationships between academic authors and publishers, opens up academic discourse up to the global public, allows for rich analytics about readership and citations, and has the potential to make monographs and compilations go viral in online environments. The conclusion will relate the story of the presenter���s prototyping of the LODLIB genre in to propose and realize a new, scientific solution to Q and the Synoptic Problem.

S20-214 Digital Humanities in Biblical, Early Jewish, and Christian Studies 11/20/2021 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM Room: 215 (Meeting Room Level) - San Antonio Convention Center Theme: Digital Humanities in Biblical, Early Jewish, and Christian Studies Paul Robertson, University of New Hampshire Cluster Mapping Paul's Letters: Grouping and Identifying the Location of Stylistic Similarities (25 min) Tag(s): Pauline Epistles (Biblical Literature - New Testament), Literary Criticism (incl. poetics, new criticism, formalism, close reading, narratology) (Interpretive Approaches) Natia Mirotadze, Georgian National Center of Manuscripts Multilingual Annotated Electronic Parallel Corpus-Based Edition of the Georgian Translation of the Book of Tobit (25 min) Tag(s): Tobit (Biblical Literature - Deuterocanonical Works), Deuterocanonical Works (Biblical Literature - Deuterocanonical Works) James A. Libby, Wheaton College (Illinois) Channeling Father Busa���Yet Again! Three Recent Technical Developments in Digital Humanities Computing (25 min) Tag(s): Computer-Assisted Research (Technology), Dead Sea Scrolls (Early Jewish Literature - Dead Sea Scrolls), Papyrology (Epigraphy & Paleography) Mark G. Bilby, California State University - Fullerton Introducing Linked Open Data Living Informational Books (25 min) Tag(s): Computer-Assisted Research (Technology), Historical Criticism (Interpretive Approaches), Lexicography (Text and Translation) Discussion (30 min)