  Scholarship on underresourced languages bring with them a variety of
challenges which make access to the full spectrum of source materials and their
evaluation difficult. For Coptic in particular, large scale analyses and any
kind of quantitative work become difficult due to the fragmentation of
manuscripts, the highly fusional nature of an incorporational morphology, and
the complications of dealing with influences from Hellenistic era Greek, among
other concerns. Many of these challenges, however, can be addressed using
Digital Humanities tools and standards. In this paper, we outline some of the
latest developments in Coptic Scriptorium, a DH project dedicated to bringing
Coptic resources online in uniform, machine readable, and openly available
formats. Collaborative web-based tools create online 'virtual departments' in
which scholars dispersed sparsely across the globe can collaborate, and natural
language processing tools counterbalance the scarcity of trained editors by
enabling machine processing of Coptic text to produce searchable, annotated
corpora.
