Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies: Data and Relations in Greco-Roman Names (SNAP:DRGN) is a collaborative Digital Humanities project to address the problem of linking together large collections of material (datasets) containing information about persons, names and person-like entities managed in heterogeneous systems and formats. SNAP is funded by the U.K.…
read moreDavid Michelson will present a workshop for students at Gordon College on 3/18/2014: “Introduction to Digital Humanities and Syriaca.org” Below are some notes for the presentation which will introduce Syriaca.org, the broader field of digital humanities, and discuss the Text Encoding Initiative’s guidelines for cataloging manuscripts. Outline Alphabet Soup: Syriaca.org:…
read moreDr. Thomas Carlson will be presenting a paper, “Syriaca.org: Religious Geography Over Time and the Challenges of Digital Classification” as part of the Religion and Digital Technologies Workshop hosted on February 7, 2014 by the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University. A Program for the event is here.
read moreOn Dec 3, Syriaca.org general editor David Michelson will be presenting a demonstration of the Syriaca.org collaborative tools to the Digital Humanities Seminar at the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. A general overview of the entire Syriaca.org project is here. A very rough visualization of…
read moreSyriaca.org is pleased to announce that Dr. Thomas Carlson, postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University and co-editor of the Syriac Gazetteer, has been awarded Second Prize in the Global Digital Humanities Essay competition sponsored by the University of Lethbridge, Global Outlook::Digital Humanities, and the journal Digital Studies/Le champ numérique. An…
read moreDavid 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)…
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