Information once found only in books now streams across laptops, mobile devices, and social networks. To ensure that the values and ideas embedded within the Torah remain accessible and relevant in today’s digital world, JPS created the Tagged Tanakh (TT).
The Tagged Tanakh is a collaborative platform and database that joins vetted content and user-generated commentary around the Jewish Bible. The words of the Torah create the foundation of the database. These words can then be cross-referenced, annotated, and connected —tagged— to other forms of media like videos, maps or games. Individual words or chunks of text serve as stepping-stones for dynamic conversations that can cross educational and technological boundaries.
The Need
As information continues to make its dramatic leap from the printed page to digital formats, the next generation of Jewish readers needs to have access to credible and stable versions of core Jewish texts.
The Value
The Tagged Tanakh is an investment in the digital future of the most important of all Jewish texts. This project not only supports Jewish continuity and literacy, but also enables Jewish wisdom to reach audiences of all ages and levels of Jewish knowledge, within all branches of Judaism.
The Impact
The Tagged Tanakh will create new ways of interpreting (e.g., midrash) the Bible through a process known as “tagging.” By tagging the Torah, ideas and values embedded in this central Jewish text can be more easily found and can reach more people. The Tagged Tanakh will blend content from JPS’s extensive archive with questions and ideas contributed by online users using this tagging system. We plan to create a template for online learning that going forward will serve rabbis and scholars, students, adult learners, and religious seekers—both Jewish and non-Jewish.
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