David's blog posts
New Publication: Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca Electronica
Syriaca.org is pleased to announce the release of a new online publication: Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca Electronica Editors: Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, Marquette University David A. Michelson, Vanderbilt University P. Ugo Zanetti, Monastère de Chevetogne Claude Detienne, Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Goias The Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca Electronica (BHSE) is a guide to over one thousand Syriac stories, hymns,…
Posted by David Michelson on October 4, 2016 in Publications
9/29/2016 “Modeling a Body of Literature in TEI” @TEI Conference & Members’ Meeting
Syriaca.org editor Dr. Nathan P. Gibson will present a poster coauthored with Prof. David A. Michelson, “Modeling a Body of Literature in TEI: The New Handbook of Syriac Literature”, at the TEI Conference & Members’ Meeting in Vienna, Austria on September 29, 2016. The poster and poster text, not including the schema and commentary, is…
Posted by David Michelson on September 26, 2016 in Uncategorized, Conference, Digital Humanities, New Handbook of Syriac Literature, poster, public presentations
8/20/2016 “Syriaca.org: Frameworks for Digital Research in Syriac Studies” @Symposium Syriacum XII, Pontificio Instituto Orientale
Syriaca.org editor Prof. David A. Michelson will present a paper, “Syriaca.org: Frameworks for Digital Research in Syriac Studies”, at the Symposium Syriacum XII, held at the Pontificio Instituto Orientale in Rome, Italy on August 20, 2016. The abstract for the paper is below: Syriaca.org is a set of digital tools and reference resources designed to…
Posted by David Michelson on August 20, 2016 in Uncategorized, Conference, Digital Humanities, public presentations
6/7/2016 “Syriaca.org: Bridging the digital gap between libraries, specialists, and the public” Big Ancient Mediterranean #BAM2016 @ U of Iowa
Syriaca.org editor David Michelson will present “Syriaca.org: Bridging the digital gap between libraries, specialists, and the public” as part of the workshop: Linking the Big Ancient Mediterranean held at the University of Iowa: June 6-8, 2016 (#BAM2016). An abstract of the paper is as follows and a full link to the presentation is posted below:…
Posted by David Michelson on June 7, 2016 in Uncategorized
6/2/2016 “Syriaca.org: Meeting Digital Infrastructure Needs for Endangered Cultural Heritage” @ Vanderbilt U. “Cultural Heritage at Scale” #CHAS16
Note: Updated with links. Syriaca.org General Editor David Michelson will present on “Syriaca.org: Meeting Digital Infrastructure Needs for Endangered Cultural Heritage” as part of “A Semantic Web Symposium: Cultural Heritage at Scale,” June 2-3, 2016, Vanderbilt University · Nashville, Tennessee (http://heritage-at-scale.info/). Those attending the conference may use the following link (with caveats!) to view the…
Posted by David Michelson on June 2, 2016 in Uncategorized
4/19/2016 Syriaca.org Developing Linked Open Dataset
During the spring 2016 semester, Syriaca.org received support from Vanderbilt University’s Jean & Alexander Heard Library for the project “Linked Data from the Medieval Middle East.” The project was funded as part of the Library Dean’s Fellows Program (http://library.vanderbilt.edu/about/deans_fellows/df_projects.php). The goal of the project was to enhance the digital data of Syriaca.org by serializing (rendering)…
Posted by David Michelson on April 19, 2016 in Uncategorized
11/13/2015 “New Digital Tools” @Vladimir State University / “Новые цифровые средства для исследования средневекового Ближнего Востока” @Владимирский государственный университет
On November 13, 2015, Syriaca.org general editor Dr. David A. Michelson and director Daniel L. Schwartz presented in absentia a paper titled “Syriaca.org: New Digital Tools for the Study of the Medieval Middle East” at the International Conference on Scholarship and Practice: Russia and the Historical Experience of World Civilizations, Vladimir State University, Vladimir, Russia….
Posted by David Michelson on November 13, 2015 in Uncategorized, Conference, Digital Humanities, public presentations
8/11/2015 “Quid ergo Silicon Valley et Hierosolymis? Potential and Perils of the Digital Humanities for Patristic Studies” #oxpats15 @Oxford University
Syriaca.org general editor David A. Michelson will present a paper “Quid ergo Silicon Valley et Hierosolymis? Potential and Perils of the Digital Humanities for Patristic Studies” as part of the XVII. International Conference on Patristic Studies at Oxford University on 8/11/2015. This is part of a two panel session on Digital Humanities and the Study…
Posted by David Michelson on August 7, 2015 in Uncategorized
8/10/2015 “Encoding Western and Non-Western Names for Ancient Syriac Authors” Short Talk at #balisage #culturalHeritage
On August 10, 2015, Syriaca.org team members Nathan Gibson and Winona Salesky will be presenting a short talk, coauthored with David Michelson, at the Balisage Pre-Conference Symposium on Cultural Heritage Markup in Bethesda, MD. (See details in the full program here.) The theme of the symposium is “using markup to preserve, understand, and disseminate cultural…
Posted by David Michelson on August 5, 2015 in Uncategorized, Conference, Digital Humanities, eXist-DB, public presentations, TEI XML
6/24/2015 “Syriac Studies and Digital Research” Panel at #NASS7
Syriaca.org editors will be presenting on their work in the digital humanities in sessions at the 2015 North American Syriac Symposium held June 21-24, 2015 at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Details are here and here. On Wednesday, June 24 from 9:00-10:30 AM, these same scholars will be participating in a panel…
Posted by David Michelson on June 19, 2015 in Uncategorized, Conference, Demo, Digital Humanities, public presentations, Qadishe: Gateway to the Syriac Saints, Syriac Gazetteer
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