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…
read moreOn 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 moreOn 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…
read moreOn 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 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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