Project News from Syriaca.org

Daniel 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…

On July 11, 2019, Syriaca.org Director Daniel Schwartz will present “Syriac Persons, Events, and Relations: A Linked Open Factoid-based Prosopography,” a presentation on Syriaca.org’s forthcoming SPEAR module, a digital, factoid-based prosopography for Syriac studies at the annual Digital Humanities Conference. The presentation can be found here

On 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…

The Syriaca.org team is pleased to host thirty scholars for a workshop at Marquette University, May 23-24, 2017. Senior scholars and graduate students from the U.S., Canada, France, and Germany will be trained in digital research methods for scholars interested in social history, hagiography, prosopography, Syriac studies, and the application…