Jonathan Robie
Clear Senior Research And Development Fellow at biblicalhumanities.org
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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SeniorJonathan Robie is a senior research and development fellow who blends 30+ years of language, standards, and tooling expertise with a 12-year focus on applying data to Bible translation and scholarship. At Biblica and Clear Bible he leads teams building linguistic datasets, curation systems, and tools that bridge computational linguistics, NLP, and translation workflows. He co-founded biblicalhumanities.org and runs the long-established B-Greek forum, demonstrating sustained community-building around open digital resources for biblical languages. A former W3C lead editor and co-designer of XQuery/XPath and JSONiq, he brings deep standards and query-language design experience to domain-specific problems. Based in Durham, NC, Jonathan pairs a pragmatic engineering background—from XML and query engines to REST and APIs—with a passion for making scholarly data interoperable and reusable across the global church. An underappreciated strength is his knack for turning formal language standards into practical tools and ecosystems used by translators and researchers.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
English, German, koine greek, biblical hebrew
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Github Skills (118)
tuple10
annotations10
url-parsing10
mappings10
phonetics10
foreign10
transcription10
diego10
abaqus10
xquery10
normalization10
dictionary10
morphology10
linguistics10
xslt10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Copenhagen-Alliance/versification-specification
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
Versification mappings and versification snifffing
Contributions:4 reviews, 54 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 7 months
mappings
biblicalhumanities/Nestle1904
Dec 2013 - Nov 2021
Greek New Testament, edited by Eberhard Nestle, published in 1904 by the British and Foreign Bible Society. Transcription by Diego Santos, morphology by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen, markup by Jonathan Robie.
Contributions:92 commits, 5 PRs, 37 pushes in 8 years 1 month
biblemorphologydiegotranscriptionbritish
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