Project News from Syriaca.org

Syriaca.org hosted an online two-week training workshop (6/3-6/7/2024 and 7/8-7/12/2024) to introduce and train editorial review panelists to assist in the publication of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Library: A New Digital Edition of Wright’s Catalog, a digital enhancement of William Wright’s Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum…

David Michelson and William Potter, Co-Editors of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Library: A New Digital Edition of Wright’s Catalogue co-presented at the “Syriac Studies in the UK: Past, Present, Future” conference hosted by Durham University, Durham, UK. In addition to Michelson and Potter, seven student research team members from…

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…

On June 14, 2023, William Potter, Co-editor of The Syriac Gazeteer (http://syriaca.org/geo), will present “Modeling the Complexities of Syriac Manuscripts in the Sinai Manuscripts Digital Library,” a presentation on the forthcoming Sinai Manuscripts Data Portal at the 2023 North American Syriac Symposium. The SMDP will provide a more robust data…

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.

Syriaca.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…