Project News from Syriaca.org

The Syriaca.org team will be giving a private demo at the AAR SBL. Temporary links to the demo site for that presentation are: The Gazetteer homepage may be viewed at demo.syriaca.org A list of all places is viewable as a Browse Menu. Our model entry is Edessa. A general overview…

On November 15, David Michelson will give a presentation of the Syriac Gazetteer to the Geographic Imagination and the Spatial Humanities Seminar at the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities. Temporary links to the demo site for that presentation are: The Gazetteer homepage may be viewed at demo.syriaca.org A…

On Nov. 1, David Michelson will be presenting a demonstration of the Syriaca.org tools to the SEC regional faculty workshop “Cultures of the Late Antique Mediterranean” hosted at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Temporary links to the demo site for that presentation are: A general overview of the project is…

David Michelson presented a workshop for students at Gordon College on using TEI for Syriac MSS. Links for the presentation include: Alphabet Soup: Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal Linked Open Data RDF (Resource Description Framework) URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) Cyberinfrastructure Authority Control Virtual International Authority File XML (eXtensible Markup Language)…

This post is co-authored with Karen Smith-Yoshimura, OCLC Research. [ Ed. note: The Syriac Reference Portal has been privileged to collaborate with OCLC Research for the past two years on preparing an author authority file for Syriac Studies. We recently took time to write up some joint reflections. This same…

The following link provides links and a list of key terms for understanding the technical standards and design of Syriaca.org. This list was prepared for a presentation about Syriaca.org on 3/19/2013 at Vanderbilt University and is not intended to be exhaustive. Click here for Links and Further Reading