Project News from Syriaca.org

Syriaca.org Research Assistant William L. Potter presented a lightning talk overviewing the purpose and design of Syriaca.org during Vanderbilt University’s 2019 Digital Humanities Bootcamp.

Vanderbilt University and Syriaca.org are pleased to announce the hiring of William Potter as a Research Assistant for Digital Cultural Heritage effective August 5, 2019. His appointment is jointly sponsored by the Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities, Vanderbilt’s Digital Cultural Heritage Research Cluster, Vanderbilt Divinity School, and Vanderbilt’s Chancellor’s Faculty…

On July 11, 2019, Syriaca.org Director Daniel Schwartz will present “Syriac Persons, Events, and Relations: A Linked Open Factoid-based Prosopography,” a presentation on Syriaca.org’s forthcoming SPEAR module, a digital, factoid-based prosopography for Syriac studies at the annual Digital Humanities Conference. The presentation can be found here

On May 3, 2019, Syriaca.org was proud to announce the release of the Srophé App, an eXist-DB application which enables researchers to encode and link historical data. The release took place as part of the “Encoding Cultural Heritage at Scale Symposium,” and was accompanied by a panel discussion of the…

On May 2, 2019, Syriaca.org Director Daniel Schwartz will present “From Text to Data and Back Again: Modeling Syriac Heritage with TEI and Linked Data,” a presentation on Syriaca.org’s forthcoming SPEAR module, a digital, factoid-based prosopography for Syriac studies as part of the “Encoding Cultural Heritage at Scale Symposium,” May…