On November 19, 2023, William Potter, Co-editor of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Library: A New Digital Edition of Wright’s Catalogue, will present “William Wright’s Catalogue and The Digital Wright: Serving the Past, Present, and Future Information Needs of Syriac Manuscript Researchers” at the 2023 Society of Biblical Literature annual…
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 moreOn May 2, 2019, Syriaca.org Director Daniel Schwartz will present “From Text to Data and Back Again: Modeling Syriac Heritage with TEI and Linked Data,” a presentation on Syriaca.org’s forthcoming SPEAR module, a digital, factoid-based prosopography for Syriac studies as part of the “Encoding Cultural Heritage at Scale Symposium,” May…
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