Syriaca.org Editors David A. Michelson and Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent were recently interviewed by Ephrem A. Ishac for The Digital Orientalist. They presented an update on a working group launched in collaboration with Professors Dawn Childress (University of California) to develop digital tools and create a common Linked Open Data for…
read moreSyriaca.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)…
read moreSyriaca.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.
read moreSyriaca.org Research Assistant William L. Potter presented a lightning talk overviewing the purpose and design of Syriaca.org during Vanderbilt University’s 2019 Digital Humanities Bootcamp.
read moreVanderbilt 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…
read moreOn 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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