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Bar Ilan University's Responsa Project wins Israel Prize.
The Responsa Project is the largest electronic database of Torah literature in the world.
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Globes correspondent February 14, 2007 –
Minister of Education Yuli Tamir announced yesterday that Bar Ilan University's
Responsa Project has won the 2007 Israel Prize for Torah literature.
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The Responsa Project is the largest electronic database of Torah literature in the world.
The database contains 160 million words, and includes 100,000 halakhic rulings.
All texts are available in full, and are proofread and hyper-linked.
The database also includes the Bible and its principal commentaries, the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmud,
Midrashim, the Zohar, Maimonides, the Shulchan Aruch and many other resources.
The Israel Prize is the most prestigious award handed out by the State of Israel,
and is presented annually on the eve of Israeli Independence Day.
Inaugurated in 1991 as a CD, the Responsa project has just made the transition to the
internet, as the Online Responsa project, which was produced by Bar Ilan
University in collaboration with C.D.I. Systems , using C.D.I.'s online publishing
platform NetIS .
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - http://www.globes.co.il/ - on February 14, 2007
© Copyright of Globes Publisher Itonut (1983) Ltd. 2007
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interactive bibliography of all books printed in the Hebrew Language between 1473 and 1960;
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German partners.
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