David Michelson presented a workshop for students at Gordon College on using TEI for Syriac MSS. Links for the presentation include: Alphabet Soup: Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal Linked Open Data RDF (Resource Description Framework) URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) Cyberinfrastructure Authority Control Virtual International Authority File XML (eXtensible Markup Language)…
read moreOn Saturday, March 23, 2013, Thomas Carlson, postdoctoral fellow, presented a paper at the “Identity and Authenticity” Symposium of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence in Princeton, NJ. The full title of the talk was “Identity and Identification in the Digital Humanities: The Challenges and Experience of Syriaca.org.” Here is…
read moreThis post is co-authored with Karen Smith-Yoshimura, OCLC Research. [ Ed. note: The Syriac Reference Portal has been privileged to collaborate with OCLC Research for the past two years on preparing an author authority file for Syriac Studies. We recently took time to write up some joint reflections. This same…
read moreThe following link provides links and a list of key terms for understanding the technical standards and design of Syriaca.org. This list was prepared for a presentation about Syriaca.org on 3/19/2013 at Vanderbilt University and is not intended to be exhaustive. Click here for Links and Further Reading
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