Project News from Syriaca.org

On 3/31/15, Syriaca.org general editor David Michelson gave a presentation, “Nineveh No More: Cultural Genocide in Contemporary Iraq and Syria,” as part of the Spring Faculty Assembly at Vanderbilt University. The presentation focused on the current cultural and political crises in Iraq and discussed the cultural preservation work of Syriaca.org.…

Syriaca.org is pleased to announce that it has received funding from the National Endowment of the Humanities under the Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program. The award to be directed by Daniel Schwartz (Texas A&M University) will be used to develop three new resources: 1. an open-source data curation and…

In conjunction with Hugoye Symposium IV, Syriaca.org will be holding a one day workshop for interested collaborators on 3/7/15 at Rutgers University. The workshop will introduce the linked open data sets and open-source software created by Syriaca,org and demonstrate how it can be re-used for related projects. The workshop will…

Syriaca.org is pleased to be a co-sponsor of Hugoye Symposium IV: Syriac and the Digital Humanities which will be held on 3/6/15 at Rutgers University. The symposium will feature thirteen presentations by scholars working in varied aspects of Syriac studies including corpus linguistics, digital libraries, manuscript cataloging, and prosopographical research.…

Syriaca.org editor David Michelson will present to an informational session on on TEI for Manuscripts at Vanderbilt University on 2/2/2015. These are the links for that presentation XML: http://dh.obdurodon.org/what-is-xml.xhtml Gentle Introduction that shows TEI in use: http://uvatango.wordpress.com/class-materials/tei-handout-poetry-edition/ Simple and sample exercise for using TEI for manuscripts: http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/Talks/2009-04-galway/exercise-D2_describing-a-manuscript.xml   Examples: http://wwwb.library.vanderbilt.edu/manuscripts/index.html…