Practical examples and theoretical reflections on the do's and don'ts of using digital tools for your study and research in African and Asian Studies.
This is part 2 of my posts on the Syriac materials that I have found in Yale: The Beinecke Rare … Continue reading Flew under the Digital and non-Digital Scholarly Radars: A Mysterious Box of Syriac Fragments at Yale University (Part 2)
As you might expect, not all rare materials (manuscripts and their fragments) are yet digitized. Sometimes still more surprising (and … Continue reading Flew under the Digital and non-Digital Scholarly Radars: Syriac Manuscripts and Fragments at Yale University (Part 1)
This is the second post in an interview of Prof. Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent and Prof. David A. Michelson, who were … Continue reading New Working Group for Linked Manuscript Descriptions, part 2
Recently, a new initiative to develop digital tools and create a common Linked Open Data for the study of Middle … Continue reading New Working Group for Linked Manuscript Descriptions, part 1
This is the second part of a series of posts by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac, based … Continue reading “From Dead-ends into Gateways”: Interview with Dr. Nathan P. Gibson about Syriaca.org, 2nd and Final Part
This is the first part of a series of posts by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac, based … Continue reading Interview with Dr. Nathan P. Gibson about Syriaca.org, Part 1
This is the sixth and final post of a series by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac, based on … Continue reading Toward an Ecosystem of the Syriac Digital Humanities: An Interview with George A. Kiraz, 5th and Final Part
Very recently we read news about Pope Francis presenting a restored Syriac liturgical manuscript to the Syriac Catholic Bishop of … Continue reading Manuscripts as Refugees
This is the fifth post of a series by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac, based on his interview … Continue reading Early Thoughts on Manuscript Digitization – The Syriac Digital Humanities: An Interview with George A. Kiraz, Part 4
This is the fourth post of a series by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac, based on his interview … Continue reading The Syriac Digital Humanities: An Interview with George A. Kiraz, Part 3