Syriaca.org editors David A. Michelson (Vanderbilt University) and Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent (Marquette University), in collaboration with Dawn Childress (UCLA Libraries, Sinai Manuscripts Digital Library), organized the first online meeting of a new Working Group for Linked Manuscript Descriptions as part of the Linked Pasts VII Symposium. The first session (12/15)…

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Syriaca.org Research Assistant William L. Potter led a workshop on the use of TEI XML for constructing digital critical editions of texts during Vanderbilt University’s 2019 Digital Humanities Bootcamp.

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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…

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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

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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…

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