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Category: Syriac Studies

Flew under the Digital and non-Digital Scholarly Radars: A Mysterious Box of Syriac Fragments at Yale University (Part 2)
Archiving, Digitization, Syriac Studies, Textual Analysis, Using Real Paper, Workflow

Flew under the Digital and non-Digital Scholarly Radars: A Mysterious Box of Syriac Fragments at Yale University (Part 2)

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)

Flew under the Digital and non-Digital Scholarly Radars: Syriac Manuscripts and Fragments at Yale University (Part 1)
Archiving, Digitization, Syriac Studies

Flew under the Digital and non-Digital Scholarly Radars: Syriac Manuscripts and Fragments at Yale University (Part 1)

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)

Exploring Wellcome Collection’s Karshuni Manuscripts
Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Archiving, Digitization, Syriac Studies

Exploring Wellcome Collection’s Karshuni Manuscripts

Written by Rosie Maxton. Wellcome Collection comprises close to 1000 Arabic manuscripts, showcasing a vast array of genres, historical periods … Continue reading Exploring Wellcome Collection’s Karshuni Manuscripts

New Working Group for Linked Manuscript Descriptions, part 2
Archiving, DH in Practice, Digitization, Events & Conferences, Online Resources, Syriac Studies, Textual Analysis

New Working Group for Linked Manuscript Descriptions, part 2

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

New Working Group for Linked Manuscript Descriptions, part 1
Archiving, DH in Practice, Digitization, Events & Conferences, Online Resources, Syriac Studies, Textual Analysis

New Working Group for Linked Manuscript Descriptions, part 1

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

“From Dead-ends into Gateways”: Interview with Dr. Nathan P. Gibson about Syriaca.org, 2nd and Final Part
DH in General, DH in Practice, Digitization, Online Resources, Syriac Studies

“From Dead-ends into Gateways”: Interview with Dr. Nathan P. Gibson about Syriaca.org, 2nd and Final Part

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

Interview with Dr. Nathan P. Gibson about Syriaca.org, Part 1
Online Resources, Syriac Studies

Interview with Dr. Nathan P. Gibson about Syriaca.org, Part 1

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

Automated Transcription of a Syriac Work’s Translated Text
DH in General, DH in Practice, OCR, Syriac Studies

Automated Transcription of a Syriac Work’s Translated Text

During last spring I thought a lot about the topic for this post. I even felt a certain discouragement, which … Continue reading Automated Transcription of a Syriac Work’s Translated Text

Toward an Ecosystem of the Syriac Digital Humanities: An Interview with George A. Kiraz, 5th and Final Part
DH in General, OCR, Online Resources, Syriac Studies

Toward an Ecosystem of the Syriac Digital Humanities: An Interview with George A. Kiraz, 5th and Final Part

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

Manuscripts as Refugees
Archiving, Digitization, Syriac Studies, Textual Analysis

Manuscripts as Refugees

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

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