David Michelson (General Editor of Syriaca.org) and Dan Schwartz (Director of Syriaca.org) have recently published an essay, “Syriaca.org: New Digital Tools for the Study of the Medieval Middle East,” in Istoričeskij Opyt Mirovyh Civilizacij I Rossiâ: Materialy IV Meždunarodnoj Naučno-Praktičeskoj Konferencii 13 Noâbrâ 2015 G., edited by I. K. Lapšina and O. V. Zaharova, 19–23. Vladimir: Vladimirskij Gosudarstvennyj Universitet, 2016.
Full text of this essay is freely available here: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/158440