Syriaca.org is excited to be one of the projects featured as a sample project at http://xqueryinstitute.org/. Senior programmer Winona Salesky and general editor David Michelson are both serving as institute faculty. Syriaca.org is built using the XQuery functional language and eXist-db native XML database.
read moreSarah Bond of the University of Iowa has written an interesting round up for the Biblical Archeological Society on digital gazetteer projects for the ancient world including The Syriac Gazetteer. Her article notes: “The utility of historical geography in uncovering early Christian communities can also be seen in a number of…
read moreThree of the Syraica.org editors will participate in a panel “Introducing Syriaca.org: New Online Tools for the Study of Syriac Christianity” as part of the 2014 annual meeting of the North American Patristics Society in Chicago, Illinois. A copy of the handout from the presentation is here: NAPS2014SyriacaorgHandout The full…
read moreOn 5/16/2014 David Michelson and Syriaca.org Graduate Assistants Justin Arnwine and Anthony Davis will present a paper “Finding Colophons in Syriaca.org: Exploring the TEI Encoding Model” at the 2014 Hugoye Symposium (Rutgers University). The full program is at http://www.bethmardutho.org/index.php/hugoye/hugoye-conference.html A handout for the presentation can be found here: Handout for…
read moreStandards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies: Data and Relations in Greco-Roman Names (SNAP:DRGN) is a collaborative Digital Humanities project to address the problem of linking together large collections of material (datasets) containing information about persons, names and person-like entities managed in heterogeneous systems and formats. SNAP is funded by the U.K.…
read moreProf. Saint-Laurent will discuss her digital humanities work with Syriaca.org among other aspects of Syriac studies as part of The Fifth Dorushe Graduate Student Conference on Syriac Studies to be held in 2014 at Duke University. Here are some demonstration links for that presentation: The Syriac Gazetteer: http://syriaca.org/geo/ Additional Documentation:…
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- 4/28/2026 David Michelson interview with Ephrem Ishac @ Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 11/05/2025 Daniel Schwartz Recognized as “Open Access Standout Scholar”
- 10/6/2025 David A. Michelson Presentation to Graduate Students at the Saint Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute (SEERI): “Online Tools for Syriac Studies”
- Digital Encoding for Syriac Studies: A Virtual Workshop (July 29-31, 2025)
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- 11/23/2024 David Michelson and William Potter Presentation to 17th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age hosted by the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Link to The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Studies