Eastern Liturgies Heritage Institute

Connecting every word to its layered contextual meaning within the liturgical texts of the Eastern Nicene churches in their historical and living traditions...

• Liturgical text centric
• Connected layers of meaning
• For the liturgical texts of all Eastern Rites
• Providing a digital reference library
• For scholars, by scholars
• Made readable for all
• On phones, tablets, browsers, desktop
• Coming soon in stages
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Liturgical Text Centric

Each and every word of the liturgical texts of the Eastern Nicene churches in their historical and living traditions is the center of attention.

• Digital extant and printed source language liturgical texts for each Eastern rite
• Annotations, notes, links to referents (ontological entities, biblical and patristic texts, co-referents)
• Parallel, aligned translations
• Supports historical and comparative research
• Within and across jurisdictions and rites
• Includes the Holy Scriptures in full
• Includes patristic texts referred to in the liturgical
• Sophisticated search capabilities

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Knowledge Graph

The underlying technology is a knowledge graph database that allows nodes to be connected to other nodes, capturing information about each node and each connection (relationship).This example of a knowledge graph for the phrase "The doors, the doors!" (Tas thyras, tas thyras!) illustrates the layers of contextual meaning that will be modeled and studied in the ELHI Liturgical Knowledge Graph.

• Every word (token) of each liturgical text is a node in the ELHI liturgical knowledge graph
• Other nodes are grammatical, semantic, ontological, extra-textual referents, liturgical, etc.
• Relationships between nodes are indicated by labeled lines. Both nodes and connectors have their own properties.

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Digital Reference Library

The ELHI Liturgical Knowlege Graph is the foundation for the creation of a liturgical digital reference library.Like BibleWorks, or Accordance Bible Software, or LOGOS Bible Software, but for the liturgical texts...

• Searchable database of original source language liturgical texts and parallel aligned translations
• Linked searchable full-text original language biblical texts and parallel aligned translations
• Liturgical Ontology
• Liturgical Encyclopedia

• Semantic Liturgical Dictionary
• Exegetical Commentaries