Project News from Syriaca.org

New Link to the Bibliography: https://syriaca.org/cbss/ Zotero Library: https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/collections/P4VVZ7P6 The editors of the Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (Sergey Minov, HSE University Moscow; Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and Oded Irshai, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) are collaborating with Syriaca.org to migrate CBSC to Zotero. While the process…

Vanderbilt University and Syriaca.org are pleased to announce the hiring of William Potter as a Research Assistant for Digital Cultural Heritage effective August 5, 2019. His appointment is jointly sponsored by the Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities, Vanderbilt’s Digital Cultural Heritage Research Cluster, Vanderbilt Divinity School, and Vanderbilt’s Chancellor’s Faculty…

On May 3, 2019, Syriaca.org was proud to announce the release of the Srophé App, an eXist-DB application which enables researchers to encode and link historical data. The release took place as part of the “Encoding Cultural Heritage at Scale Symposium,” and was accompanied by a panel discussion of the…

The Digital Cultural Heritage Research Cluster at Vanderbilt University has announced the hiring of Dr. Michelle M. Taylor as the first Post-Doctoral Fellow in Digital Cultural Heritage. A biography and interview with Dr. Taylor is posted here. An experienced scholar in TEI XML, Dr. Taylor will undertake a number of…