Publications
Database Computing for Scholarly Research: Case Studies Using the Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment
by Sandra R. Schloen and Miller C. Prosser, Springer, 2023. This book discusses in detail a series of examples drawn from scholarly projects that use the OCHRE database platform (Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment). These case studies illustrate the wide range of data that can be managed with this platform and the wide variety of problems solved by OCHRE’s item-based graph data model. The unique features and design principles of the OCHRE platform are explained and justified, helping readers to imagine how the system could be used for their own data. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46696-0
OCHRE: An Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment
by J. David Schloen and Sandra R. Schloen, Eisenbrauns, 2012. This book describes an “Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment” (OCHRE) in which scholars can record, integrate, analyze, publish, and preserve their data. OCHRE is a multiproject, multi-user database system that provides a comprehensive framework for diverse kinds of information at all stages of research. It can be used for initial data acquisition and storage; for data querying and analysis; for data presentation and publication; and for long-term archiving and curation of data. The OCHRE system was designed by the co-authors of this book, David Schloen and Sandra Schloen. The software for it was written by Sandra Schloen.
The OCHRE Wiki
Maintained by Miller C. Prosser and Sandra R. Schloen
Beyond Gutenberg: Transcending the Document Paradigm in Digital Humanities
by David Schloen and Sandra Schloen, Digital Humanities Quarterly (2014: v8 n4).
Related Articles, Archaeology
Integrating GIS Data in the Ras Shamra Tablet Inventory
by Miller Prosser. In volume 2 of CyberResearchon the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions: Case Studies on Archaeological Data, Objects, Texts, and Digital Archiving, edited by V. Bigot-Juloux, A. Gansell, and A. Di Ludovic
Georeferencing the Past
Esri ArcGIS for Developers, Success Stories. December, 2018
High Schoolers Dig Into Modern Techniques at First Digital Archaeology Day
University of Chicago Research Computing Center, News Features (November 16, 2018)
Librarians and faculty collaborate on digital scholarship
by Rachel Rosenberg at the University of Chicago Library (October 26, 2017).
Meet the U Chicago student who wants to use tech and coding for archaeology
by Tessa Hamermesh, Medium.com (October 24, 2017)
Data Integration Without Taxation: A Revolutionary Approach to Collaboration
by Sandra R. Schloen, ASOR blog (December 13, 2013)
Unlocking Legacy Data: Integrating New and Old in OCHRE.
by Miller C. Prosser and Sandra R. Schloen (2020)
In Old Excavation Data: What Can We Do? Proceedings of the Workshop Held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016, edited by Edeltraud Aspöck, Seta Štuhec, Karin Kopetzky, and Matthias Kucera, 39–52. Oriental and European Archaeology 16. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Tell Keisan
by Andrew M. Wright, Oriental Institute News & Notes. Members’ Magazine (Issue 241, Spring 2019), pp. 28-31.
Back, and to the Future: Digital tools transform the study of ancient civilizations.
by Elizabeth Station, Tableau: the magazine of the Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago (Spring 2014).
Digital Dig: Technology keeps UChicago archaeologists organized
by Elizabeth Station, Tableau: the magazine of the Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago (Spring 2014)
Related Articles, Textual Studies
The Power of OCHRE’s Highly Atomic Graph Database Model for the Creation and Curation of Digital Text Editions
Prosser, Miller C. and Schloen, Sandra R. (2021). In: Graph Data-Models and Semantic Web Technologies in Scholarly Digital Editing, pp. 55-71. Norderstedt: BoD. ISBN 978-3-7543-4369-2
Digital Philology in the Ras Shamra Tablet Inventory Project: text curation through computational intelligence
by Miller Prosser. In CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions: Case Studies on Archaeological Data, Objects, Texts, and Digital Archiving,edited by V. Bigot-Juloux, A. Gansell, and A. Di Ludovico (2018).
Digital Tools for Paleography in the OCHRE Database Platform
by Sarah Yardney, Miller Prosser, and Sandra R. Schloen. TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 25 (2020): 129–143
New Digital Tools for a New Critical Edition of the Hebrew Bible
by Sarah Yardney, Miller Prosser, and Sandra Schloen. Open Theology, 2019.
Two Perspectives on the Digital Humanities with Steven Rings and David Schloen
Tableau: the magazine of the Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago (Spring 2016).
Ancient Civilizations, Modern Computation
by Benjamin Recchie, Research Computing Center, University of Chicago (March 2016).
Oriental Institute Annual Reports
2020-21: A New Normal
by Sandra Schloen
2018-19: We Interrupt our Regular Programming
by Miller Prosser and Sandra Schloen
2016-17: In the Beginning
by Sandra Schloen
2014-15: View from the Top
by Sandra Schloen
2012-13: From Fevsipaşa
by Sandra Schloen
2019-20: Collaborating from a Distance
by Miller Prosser
2017-18: Swimming in Data
by Miller Prosser and Sandra Schloen
2015-16: Reversal of Fortune
by Miller Prosser and Sandra Schloen
2013-14: Going Places
by Miller Prosser
2011-12: Introducing the OCHRE Data Service
by Sandra Schloen
Presentations and Posters
No Second Chances: Revolutionizing Archaeological Recording Using the ArcGIS SDK for Java
Connections and Contours: Modeling Textual Data in the Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment; poster
by Andrew R. Burlingame, manuSciences 2017
OCHRE exhibit poster
ASOR, November 2016
CEDAR: Critical Editions for Digital Analysis and Research; Poster
by Sarah Yardney, manuSciences 2019
Corpus-Based Analyses of Western Peripheral Akkadian in the OCHRE Database Environment
by Colton Siegmund Presented on November 10th 2017 at The University of Chicago Digital Humanities Forum
Rhapsody in Green, Database Variations on a Theme
CAA Siena session, April 2015
OCHRE Data Service and the RCC
Mind Bytes Expo and Symposium, October 2015
OCHRE Data Service
Mind Bytes Expo and Symposium, October 2014