On March 23, 2018, Syriaca.org Associate Director Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent will give a public lecture at the Catholic University of America in the School of Theology and Religious studies entitled “Enslaved Saints, Monastic Lineages, and the Computer: Digital Horizons for the Study of Syriac Hagiography.” More details are posted here:…
read moreSyriaca.org editors Daniel Schwartz, David Michelson, and Jamey Walters presented at the workshop: Linked Data and Syriac Sources at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 12–13 March 2018. The workshop is sponsored by the CLARIAH project “LinkSyr“. As part of that project the following presentation was given: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16N9Py1mZYrLPWWd9sZM42B_Czv-DvIxpDYCV2u29FNw/edit?usp=sharing Also demo videos related…
read moreOn 2/23/2018 Syriaca.org General Editor David Michelson will give two presentations at the workshop “Linking Manuscripts from the Coptic, Ethiopian and Syriac domain: Present and Future Synergy Strategies.” Michelson will present on “The Syriac Gazetteer” and “New Handbook of Syriac Literature & A Guide to Syriac Authors” and their potential…
read moreThe Syriaca.org project has been featured in a recent post from MENALIB: The Middle East Virtual Library (https://www.menalib.de/en/2017/09/syriaca-org/). MENALIB is an information service of the University and State Library of Saxon-Anhalt for the study of the Middle East, North Africa, and Islam. It is the successor to the Middle East…
read moreOn 09/24/17, Syriaca.org General Editor David Michelson will present on “Manuscripts as Data” as part of the “1st Summer School of Digital Humanities: Distant Reading – Potentials and Applications” held at Heidelberg University. The presentation is available here. Links and projects mentioned in the talk are listed below for reference…
read moreAn article by Syriaca.org editors Nathan P. Gibson, David A. Michelson, and Daniel L. Schwartz titled “From Manuscript Catalogues to a Handbook of Syriac Literature: Modeling an Infrastructure for Syriaca.org” has been published in the peer-reviewed, open-access Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities (ISSN 2416-5999). The article explores the…
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