Syriaca.org editor David Michelson will present “Syriaca.org: Bridging the digital gap between libraries, specialists, and the public” as part of the workshop: Linking the Big Ancient Mediterranean held at the University of Iowa: June 6-8, 2016 (#BAM2016). An abstract of the paper is as follows and a full link to…
read moreNote: Updated with links. Syriaca.org General Editor David Michelson will present on “Syriaca.org: Meeting Digital Infrastructure Needs for Endangered Cultural Heritage” as part of “A Semantic Web Symposium: Cultural Heritage at Scale,” June 2-3, 2016, Vanderbilt University · Nashville, Tennessee (http://heritage-at-scale.info/). Those attending the conference may use the following link…
read moreDuring the spring 2016 semester, Syriaca.org received support from Vanderbilt University’s Jean & Alexander Heard Library for the project “Linked Data from the Medieval Middle East.” The project was funded as part of the Library Dean’s Fellows Program (http://library.vanderbilt.edu/about/deans_fellows/df_projects.php). The goal of the project was to enhance the digital data…
read moreSyriaca.org director Daniel L. Schwartz will present on “The Social Context of Religious Change in Late Antique Syria” at the conference Faith and Community around the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages at the New Europe College in Bucharest, Romania. Abstract of the paper is as follows: The unprecedented…
read moreSyriaca.org director Daniel L. Schwartz will present on “The Social Context of Religious Change in Late Antique Syria” at a workshop on Open Sourcing Religion organized by the Center for Science and Innovation Studies at the University of California, Davis. Abstract of the paper is as follows: Best practices in…
read moreSyriaca.org director, Dr. Daniel L. Schwartz gave a lightning talk on Syriaca.org to the Digital Humanities Working Group, part of the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University. The meeting included presentations on ten additional Digital Humanities projects at Texas A&M University.
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