Project News from Syriaca.org

A discussion on the important role of librarians in collaboration on Syriaca.org was part of a presentation given by Vanderbilt University library staff as part of “Mining the Information Landscape” the 2015 annual meeting of the American Theological Library Association held June 17-20, 2015 in Denver Colorado. The presentation, “Doing…

Syriaca.org editor David Michelson will present a paper on 11/24/14 at the American Academy of Religion meeting in San Diego, California. The title of the paper is “The Syriac Gazetteer (www.syriaca.org/geo): A New Reference Work for the Geographic Environment of Middle Eastern Christianity”. For those following the talk live, here…

Syriaca.org editors Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent and David Michelson will present at the Society of Biblical Literature in San Diego, California on 11/23/14 as part of the panel “Digital Humanities in Biblical, Early Jewish, and Christian Studies” Their talk will be entitled “Using Linked Open Data to Explore Manuscript Collections: A Case Study…

In September, Anthony Davis, a Ph.D. student at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, and a Syriaca.org research assistant, introduced Syriaca.org to state Geographic Information Officers from around the country in his presentation, “Geographic Texts: Using Machine Reading to Markup Geographic References in Texts” at the National States Geographic Information…

Three of the Syraica.org editors will participate in a panel “Introducing Syriaca.org: New Online Tools for the Study of Syriac Christianity” as part of the 2014 annual meeting of the North American Patristics Society in Chicago, Illinois. A copy of the handout from the presentation is here: NAPS2014SyriacaorgHandout The full…

On 5/16/2014 David Michelson and Syriaca.org Graduate Assistants Justin Arnwine and Anthony Davis will present a paper “Finding Colophons in Syriaca.org: Exploring the TEI Encoding Model” at the 2014 Hugoye Symposium (Rutgers University). The full program is at http://www.bethmardutho.org/index.php/hugoye/hugoye-conference.html A handout for the presentation can be found here: Handout for…