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…
read moreOn January 4, 2015 Syriaca.org editors Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, David Michelson and Daniel Schwartz along with Syriaca.org research assistant James Walters participated in a panel on “The Digital Humanities and the Study of Christianity in Late Antiquity: Reflections on a Disciplinary Intersection” at the 129th Annual Meeting of the American…
read moreSyriaca.org editor David Michelson will present a paper on 11/24/14 at the American Academy of Religion meeting in San Diego, California. The title of the paper is “The Syriac Gazetteer (www.syriaca.org/geo): A New Reference Work for the Geographic Environment of Middle Eastern Christianity”. For those following the talk live, here…
read moreSyriaca.org editors Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent and David Michelson will present at the Society of Biblical Literature in San Diego, California on 11/23/14 as part of the panel “Digital Humanities in Biblical, Early Jewish, and Christian Studies” Their talk will be entitled “Using Linked Open Data to Explore Manuscript Collections: A Case Study…
read moreThe official magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities has a short article on The Syriac Gazetteer in its “Curio” section. The author, Steve Moyer, notes: “These days, most speakers of Syriac come from Syria and Iraq, two countries which are wracked by civil war and from which many Syriac…
read moreIn September, Anthony Davis, a Ph.D. student at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, and a Syriaca.org research assistant, introduced Syriaca.org to state Geographic Information Officers from around the country in his presentation, “Geographic Texts: Using Machine Reading to Markup Geographic References in Texts” at the National States Geographic Information…
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