CORRECTION! Please use this link for information about the 2026 workshop: https://blog.syriaca.org/2026/05/digital-encoding-for-the-study-of-syriac-literature-a-virtual-workshop-29-june-9-july-2026/ This information below was for the 2025 workshop. Please see the link above for the 2026 workshop. Syriaca.org and the Digital Lab at Vanderbilt University are pleased to invite applications for a virtual workshop on “Digital Encoding for…
read moreSyriaca.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…
read moreDavid 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, 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 moreDaniel 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…
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