Project News from Syriaca.org

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…

Syriaca.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…

Syriaca.org is pleased to announce a new grant of $350,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant will enable Texas A&M University, Vanderbilt University, and Marquette University to partner to continue preserving the history of Syriac culture in the Middle East. “Linking Texts and Data from the Medieval…

Syriaca.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.

Syriaca.org Research Assistant William L. Potter presented a lightning talk overviewing the purpose and design of Syriaca.org during Vanderbilt University’s 2019 Digital Humanities Bootcamp.

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…