Volunteering on the PEMM Project
The Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project is a comprehensive resource for the 1,000+ miracle stories written about and the 2,500+ images painted of the Virgin Mary in these African countries, and preserved in Geʿez between 1300 and the present.

We need support from volunteers for technical and humanities tasks.

If you are interested in volunteering, and have some of the skills listed below, please fill out this form.
 
On the technical side, the project provides opportunities for students in computer science and/or computational linguistics to work on developing search capability for a rare alphabet (Ge`ez or classical Ethiopic). It also provides opportunities for those who want to work on traditional app development with a focus on serving users in the US and the Horn Africa by following the principles of localization and minimal computing. Later, we will need beta testers.

On the humanities side, the project provides opportunities for those with superior Gəˁəz and English to work on translating stories from Gəˁəz into English and with superior Amharic and English to work on translating stories from Amharic into English and instructions from English into Amharic. US students without this knowledge but who have family members who have this knowledge are encouraged to team up with those family members to do this work. Partnering among the generations is something we hope to encourage.

The project also provides opportunities for those with local knowledge of Ethiopian/Eritrean rural, church, and monastic settings to work on identifying themes and objects in manuscript paintings (again, US students may want to pair with family members to do this).

The project also provides opportunities to those with good online research skills to identify the national origin of stories, provide latitude and longitude for churches and monasteries in Ethiopia, and do the repetitive but essential work of counting the number of lines and characters in manuscripts.

Finally, on the digital humanities side, the project provides opportunities for students to work on a folksonomy  (controlled vocabulary) for story and painting keywords.

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