--- title: "Unrestricted Original Language Resources — Griffin 2019" description: "It then describes open resources: the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology… 8 references." authors: ["Jesse A. Griffin", "Todd L. Price"] year: 2019 venue: "HIPHIL Novum 5" source: "https://doi.org/10.7146/hn.v5i2.142737" doi: "10.7146/hn.v5i2.142737" licence: "HIPHIL Novum vols 1–8: free to read, no CC licence (all rights reserved to the authors) — read only" licence_url: "https://tidsskrift.dk/hiphilnovum/about" summary_licence: "Elamur Cosmic License" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/griffin-2019-unrestricted-original-language-resources/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/griffin-2019-unrestricted-original-language-resources/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/) / [2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/2019/page/5/) / Unrestricted Original Language Resources # Unrestricted Original Language Resources **Authors:** Jesse A. Griffin and Todd L. Price · **Year:** 2019 · **Venue:** HIPHIL Novum 5/2, 86– **Link:** [tidsskrift.dk/hiphilnovum/article/view/142737](https://tidsskrift.dk/hiphilnovum/article/view/142737) · **Licence:** copyrighted (free to read, no CC licence) — summary only [**0** citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=cites:W4391938577) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 · [HIPHIL Novum 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/hiphil-novum/) · [licence](https://tidsskrift.dk/hiphilnovum/about) - [Publisher's page](https://doi.org/10.7146/hn.v5i2.142737) - [PDF](https://tidsskrift.dk/hiphilnovum/article/download/142737/186439) - [DOI 10.7146/hn.v5i2.142737](https://doi.org/10.7146/hn.v5i2.142737) - [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/W4391938577) **Authors (2)** 1. Jesse A. Griffin [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/32749942) 2. [Todd L. Price](https://openalex.org/A5008845795) [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/122001481) · h 1 · 1 citations · 19 works Citations and author metrics: OpenAlex, 2026-10-14; authors with the same name are not always told apart. ## What it is about Written from the unfoldingWord project, which supplies Bible-translation resources in "gateway languages", the paper argues which licences let an original-language resource be translated and reused freely. Private licences fail (they need contracts across countries, bind only the parties, and can be revoked); CC NoDerivatives forbids translation; CC NonCommercial blocks translators from selling their work. Only CC0, CC BY and CC BY-SA (and, more narrowly, the Free Translate licence) are judged adequate. It then describes open resources: the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (CC BY 4.0; release 1.4 with about 95% of WLC forms verified, built partly by copying verified parsings to identical forms), and its derivative, the unfoldingWord Hebrew Bible (UHB), which embeds links to lexicon and "translation words" articles in USFM 3 word attributes and plans a syntax layer. ## Ideas - I3. UHB (CC BY 4.0) as a second open witness: compare its word-level metadata with MACULA's for the Torah and count disagreements. ## For Mova - I1. Licence check for Mova's hbo sources: every resource in [languages/hbo/sources.md](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/hbo/sources/) sorted into the paper's three classes (usable and modifiable; NC/ND, tests only; all rights reserved, summary only), which matches the repo's own rules. - I2. The OSHB trick of propagating a verified analysis to all identical forms is a cheap consistency check for Mova's trees: identical pointed forms with different MACULA morphology are listed for review. I1 is a pass over [languages/hbo/sources.md](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/hbo/sources/) and [licence/DATA.md](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/licence/DATA/). I2 is a check in `tools/macula` (or the dictionary build) reported in `13-mova-tools.md` §13 (known defects of the data). I3 is a measure only if UHB is fetched (via the Scientist, not by Mova). 📚 Shelves 2[Linguistics & languages · 4,876 works · 20,420.2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) · [Ancient Hebrew · 226 works · 172.9](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/hbo/) ## Cite Cite as Jesse A. Griffin and Todd L. Price. 2019. Unrestricted Original Language Resources. HIPHIL Novum 5. The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. [DOI 10.7146/hn.v5i2.142737](https://doi.org/10.7146/hn.v5i2.142737) ```bibtex @inproceedings{griffin2019unrestricted, title = {{Unrestricted Original Language Resources}}, author = {Jesse A. Griffin and Todd L. Price}, booktitle = {HIPHIL Novum 5}, year = {2019}, doi = {10.7146/hn.v5i2.142737}, url = {https://doi.org/10.7146/hn.v5i2.142737} } ``` - [← previous Tyndale STEPBible Data development for machine analysis and computational linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/instone-brewer-2019-tyndale-stepbible-data-development-machine/) - [↑ back to papers of 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/2019/page/5/) ## References 8 references, 0 of them with a card of ours. ↗ leads to the work, «find» searches for one we have no id for yet. 1. Abbott-Smith, G. 1922. A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. [find](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Abbott%2DSmith%2C+G%2E+1922%2E+A+Manual+Greek+Lexicon+of+the+New+Testament%2E+New+York%3A+Charles+Scribner%E2%80%99s+Sons%2E) 2. Abraham, Alex. 2017. “Paradigm X: The Search for a New Paradigm of Bible Translation to Finish the Task of the Great Commission”. [find](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Abraham%2C+Alex%2E+2017%2E+%E2%80%9CParadigm+X%3A+The+Search+for+a+New+Paradigm+of+Bible+Translation+to+Finish+the+Task+of+the+Great+Commission%E2%80%9D%2E) 3. Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. 1971. [https://www.law.cornell.edu/trea-ties/berne/overview.html](https://www.law.cornell.edu/trea-ties/berne/overview.html). Accessed February 23, 2018. [↗](https://www.law.cornell.edu/trea-ties/berne/overview.html) 4. Bunning, Alan. 2018. “Center for New Testament Restoration Project Description.” [https://greekcntr.org/downloads/project.pdf](https://greekcntr.org/downloads/project.pdf). [↗](https://greekcntr.org/downloads/project.pdf) 5. Jore, Timothy. 2015. The Christian Commons. Distant Shores Media. [https://unfoldingword.bible/tcc/](https://unfoldingword.bible/tcc/). [↗](https://unfoldingword.bible/tcc/) 6. ———. 2017. “The Gateway Languages Strategy.” unfoldingWord. July 26. [https://unfoldingword.bible/as-sets/docs/whitepapers/The%20Gateway%20Languages%20Strategy-version%202.pdf](https://unfoldingword.bible/as-sets/docs/whitepapers/The%20Gateway%20Languages%20Strategy-version%202.pdf). [↗](https://unfoldingword.bible/as-sets/docs/whitepapers/The%20Gateway%20Languages%20Strategy-version%202.pdf) 7. ———. 2017. “Trustworthy and Trusted.” unfoldingWord. August 16. [https://unfoldingword.bible/as-sets/docs/whitepapers/Trustworthy%20and%20Trusted-version%201.pdf](https://unfoldingword.bible/as-sets/docs/whitepapers/Trustworthy%20and%20Trusted-version%201.pdf). [↗](https://unfoldingword.bible/as-sets/docs/whitepapers/Trustworthy%20and%20Trusted-version%201.pdf) 8. Price, Todd L. 2015. Structural Lexicology and the Greek New Testament: Applying Corpus Linguistics for Word Sense Possibility Delimitation Using Collocational Indicators. Perspectives on Linguistics and Ancient Languages 6. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias. [find](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Price%2C+Todd+L%2E+2015%2E+Structural+Lexicology+and+the+Greek+New+Testament%3A+Applying+Corpus+Linguistics+for+Word+Sense+Possibility+Delimitation+Using+Collocational+Indicators%2E+Perspectives+on+Linguistics+)