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
read moreOn 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…
read moreOn 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…
read moreSyriaca.org general editor, David Michelson moderated a panel on “Syriac Studies: New Conversations” as part of the Regional Late Antiquity Consortium Southeast (ReLACS) held at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN with panelists Samuel Barry (Eastern Tennessee State University) and Tina Shepardson (University of Tennessee). Among the projects discussed were:…
read moreOn 8/21/2018, Syriaca,org editors Nathan P. Gibson, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; David A. Michelson, Vanderbilt University; and Daniel L. Schwartz, Texas A&M University will present on “Syriaca.org and Perseids Editorial Review” a presentation on how Syriaca.org is implementing the Perseids platform for editorial review (http://www.perseids.org/). A copy of the slides from the…
read moreThe Digital Cultural Heritage Research Cluster at Vanderbilt University has announced the hiring of Dr. Michelle M. Taylor as the first Post-Doctoral Fellow in Digital Cultural Heritage. A biography and interview with Dr. Taylor is posted here. An experienced scholar in TEI XML, Dr. Taylor will undertake a number of…
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