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+ # Organization Name: Sefaria
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+ ## Industry
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+ Nonprofit Organization / Open Data / Jewish Educational Technology
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+ ## Mission Statement
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+ Sefaria is dedicated to building the future of Jewish learning in an open and participatory way. We are creating a free living library of Jewish texts and their interconnections - Bible, Talmud, Midrash, Chasidut, Kabbalah, Liturgy, Responsa... Our goal is to support learners, educators, and developers by providing open access to our digital texts and tools that enable new forms of engagement with this ancient tradition.
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+ ## Resources Offered
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+ ### Open Texts
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+ Access to thousands of Jewish texts in Hebrew and in translation, which are made available via a Creative Commons license.
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+ ### API
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+ Sefaria offers a powerful API that allows developers to create apps and integrate with the platform to bring Jewish texts to new audiences.
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+ ### Source Sheets
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+ Users can create source sheets using Sefaria’s texts for educational or personal study, fostering community engagement and collaborative learning.
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+ ### Learning Tools
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+ Interactive tools that help individuals and educators explore Jewish texts and their commentaries in depth.
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+ ### Community Support
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+ A platform for users to contribute translations, corrections, and annotations to improve the quality and breadth of available texts.
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+ ## Data Sets
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+ Comprehensive datasets of Jewish texts that can be used in machine learning to analyze linguistic patterns, cultural insights, or historical trends within Jewish literature.
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+ ## Contributions to the Community
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+ - **Educational Outreach:** Providing educators with resources and tools to bring Jewish texts into the classroom in dynamic ways.
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+ - **Research Enablement:** Offering datasets and tools that assist scholars in conducting textual analysis, comparative studies, and historical research.
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+ - **Cultural Preservation:** Digitizing and preserving Jewish texts, many of which are rare or out of print, ensuring they remain accessible to future generations.
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+ ## Innovation and Development
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+ - **Machine Learning Projects:** Collaborating on projects that use AI to translate, analyze, and categorize Jewish texts.
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+ - **Open Source Development:** Encouraging the tech community to contribute to Sefaria’s platform, ensuring that it remains cutting-edge and community-driven.
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+ - **Digital Humanities Advancement:** Playing a pioneering role in the integration of traditional texts with modern technology, advancing the field of digital humanities.
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+ ## How to Get Involved
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+ - **Data Utilization:** Encouraging developers and researchers to utilize our datasets for innovative projects.
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+ - **Contributions:** Welcoming translations, annotations, and textual corrections from users.
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+ - **Development:** Open call for developers to contribute to our codebase, enhancing the Sefaria platform.
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+ ## Contact Information
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+ - **Website:** [Sefaria's Website](https://www.sefaria.org)
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+ - **API Docs:** [Project Github Repo](https://github.com/Sefaria/Sefaria-Project)
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+ - **Email:** [email protected] for collaborations and support.
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