Project News from Syriaca.org

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…

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 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…

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…