On June 14, 2023, Noam Maeir, PhD candidate in Comparative Religion and Digital Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, presented “Excerpting Practices in Syriac Literary Culture of Late Antiquity: A Computational Analysis of the British Library’s Digitized Catalog of Syriac Manuscripts”, a presentation on his quantitative analyses of Syriac excerpting practices utilizing data from Syriaca.org’s in-progress “The Digital Wright: A Database of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Library”. A summary of Noam’s presentation follows.
read moreSyriaca.org is pleased to announce a new grant of $350,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant will enable Texas A&M University, Vanderbilt University, and Marquette University to partner to continue preserving the history of Syriac culture in the Middle East. “Linking Texts and Data from the Medieval…
read moreDaniel L. Schwartz (Director of Syriaca.org), Nathan P. Gibson (Editor, A New Handbook of Syriac Literature) have recently published an essay with Katayoun Torabi: “Modeling a Born-Digital Factoid Prosopography using the TEI and Linked Data”, Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative [Online], Rolling Issue, Online since 13 February 2021. Full text…
read moreSyriaca.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.
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