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<h1>About <em>Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal</em></h1>
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<h2>Online Reference Works</h2>
<p>The publications of <em>Syriaca.org</em> combine emerging methods in the
field of <a href="http://digitalhumanities.org:8080/dhq/vol/3/1/index.html">digital humanities</a> with the rigour of traditional scholarship in
history and philology. Four digital reference works have been published and
more are in preparation:
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<a href="geo/index.html">
<em>The Syriac Gazetteer</em>
</a> (Thomas A. Carlson and David A. Michelson, eds.) is a geographical
reference work of all places relevant to Syriac Studies, with no
temporal or spatial restrictions.
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<a href="persons/index.html">
<em>The Syriac Biographical Dictionary</em>
</a> (David A. Michelson, Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, Nathan P.
Gibson, and Daniel L. Schwartz, general eds.) is a multi-volume guide to
persons related to Syriac culture or history. This resource serves as an
authority file or standard reference system for use in cataloguing
persons of interest to Syriac studies.
<ul>
<li>
<a href="q/index.html">
<em>Volume 1: Qadishe: A Guide to the Syriac Saints</em>
</a> (Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent and David A. Michelson,
eds.) is a digital catalogue of saints venerated in the Syriac
tradition.
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<li>
<a href="authors/index.html">
<em>Volume 2: A Guide to Syriac Authors</em>
</a> (David A. Michelson and Nathan P. Gibson, eds.) is a
handbook of persons who wrote in Syriac or otherwise had an
influence on Syriac literature.
</li>
<li>
<em>Volume 3: Miscellaneous Syriac Persons</em> (David A.
Michelson, Nathan P. Gibson, and Daniel L. Schwartz, eds.) is a
biographical guide to persons relevant to the study of Syriac
history, literature, and culture.
</li>
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<em>Volume 4: Anonymous Syriac Persons</em> (Daniel L. Schwartz,
David A. Michelson, and Nathan P. Gibson) is a biographical
guide to persons relevant to the study of Syriac history,
literature, and culture.
</li>
<li>[<em>Notabene:</em> At present, volumes 3 and 4 are accessible
directly through the main <a href="persons/search.html">
<em>SBD</em> search page</a>].
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="nhsl/index.html">
<em>A New Handbook of Syriac Literature</em>
</a> is a multi-volume reference guide to Syriac literature from
antiquity to the modern period. The first volume has been published and
several more are in process. This resources is intended to serve as a
title authority file for use in cataloguing Syriac manuscripts.
<ul>
<li>
<a href="bhse/index.html">
<em>Volume 1: Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca
Electronica</em>
</a> (Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, David A. Michelson,
Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, eds.) is a database of Syriac
hagiographic literature covering not only saints indigenous to
the Syriac traditions but also hagiographic literature and cults
appropriated by the Syriac churches from Greek and other
traditions.
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="saints/index.html">
<em>Gateway to the Syriac Saints</em>
</a> (Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, general editor) uses linked
open data architecture to <em>Qadishe: A Guide to the Syriac Saints</em>
and <em>Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca Electronica</em> into a joint
resource specifically for the study of Syriac saints. At present this
resource links data throughed a system of shared <a href="documentation/terms.html">URIs</a>. An RDF instance is also in
preparation.
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<a href="bibl/index.html">
<em>Syriaca.org Works Cited</em>
</a> is a shared feference list of modern scholarship cited in all
Syriaca.org publications.
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<p>The following publications are in preparation:</p>
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<a href="spear/index.html">
<em>SPEAR: Syriac Persons Events and Relations</em>
</a> (Daniel L. Schwartz, general editor) is a factoid-based
prosopographical tool that is currently in preparation.
</li>
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<a href="mss/index.html">
<em>Digital Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in the British
Library</em>
</a> (David A. Michelson, general editor) is a digital catalogue of
Syriac manuscripts that is currently in preparation.
</li>
<li>
<em>A Union Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts</em> (David A. Michelson,
general editor) is digital union catalogue of Syriac manuscripts
following the technical model of the <a href="http://www.fihrist.org.uk/">
<em>Fihrist</em>
</a> union catalogue. It is currently in preparation.
</li>
</ul>
<p>All publications of <em>Syriaca.org</em> are made available online in a free
and open format using the <a href="http://creativecommons.org">Creative
Commons</a> licenses.
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<p>Prepublication draft data for all in-process publications is currently
available in a <a href="https://github.com/srophe">public Github
repository</a>.
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<p>For the completed publications listed above, we invite collaborative
augmentation and annotation by scholars. Please <a href="contact-us.html">contact the editors</a> to submit revisions and additions. These
reference works are designed to increase their coverage over time.
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<h2>What are the Objectives of Syriaca.org?</h2>
<p>The Syriac Reference Portal project was conceived to produce tools and
reference resources that will overcome some of the access and discovery
problems which currently impede scholarly research on Syriac language,
cultures, and history. The principle objectives are threefold:
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<li>to compile and organize core data related to the study of Syriac
sources
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<li>to create digital tools for widely disseminating this data and
facilitating further research
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<li>to create an online hub (cyberinfrastructure) to assist future research
in the field of Syriac studies
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</ul>
<h2>Who are the indended users?</h2>
<p>The publications have been created to benefit a diverse group of users. For
students and the interested public, we provide access to basic reference
information about the historical, cultural, and religious diversity of the
Middle East. For academics in general, we seek to generate new scholarly
interest in Syriac sources by making research on Syriac accessible without
the need for extensive linguistic facility in Syriac. Finally, by opening
new levels of access to the sources through new discovery tools, the Syriac
Reference Portal project not only supports the current research aims of
specialists in the field, but even offers new ways of conceptualizing the
historical evidence through digital approaches.
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<h2>Use Cases</h2>
<h3>User Scenario One: Researcher, Syriac Specialist</h3>
<p>A researcher working with an unpublished Syriac manuscript encounters a
homiletic text attributed to a minor author she cannot identify. She
consults the <a href="authors/index.html">
<em>A Guide to Syriac Authors</em>
</a> for an encyclopedia entry on the author that links to a listing of
known works and citations for published works. Consulting these texts, she
determines that her text has not previously been documented. Following the
standards and protocols established for collaboration with Syriaca.org, the
researcher submits information about the text and the manuscript citation to
the Portal for inclusion in <a href="nhsl/index.html">
<em>A New Handbook of Syriac Literature</em>
</a> and <em>A Union Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts</em> (forthcoming).
Later, another researcher who has come across a text with the same title but
without attribution to an author consults <a href="nhsl/index.html">
<em>A New Handbook of Syriac Literature</em>
</a> for text titles (or incipits) and discovers that the text’s author has
been identified through another manuscript. This second scholar then submits
his manuscript citation to the evidence field in the entry for that
author.
</p>
<h3>User Scenario Two: Researcher, Non-Specialist</h3>
<p>An historian of philosophy working on an Islamic philosophical text comes
across a reference to Aristotle’s <em>Analytica Priora</em> in its Arabic
translation. A search on Google Scholar pulls up a reference from
Syriaca.org to the same work in Syriac. The researcher then consults <em>A
New Handbook of Syriac Literature</em> for a list of the works of
Aristotle extant in Syriac. By using the classified bibliography, the
researcher learns of Syriac commentaries on the <em>Analytica</em> and is
able to incorporate them into his study. Following suggestions generated by
the semantic links in the Portal’s bibliography, he also discovers an
unpublished master’s thesis on Syriac translation technique which provides
an explanation of some terminological issues he has found confusing about
the text.
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<p>A scholar in religious studies is interested in the varying interpretations in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam of the biblical passage concerning the “binding of Isaac” in Genesis 22:1-24. Her search on the ATLA Religion database provides a link to an article from <em>Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies</em> on the Syriac poetic commentary traditions in which Syriac authors expanded on the biblical narrative to speculate about Sarah’s attitudes toward the planned sacrifice of her son. A google search for this <em>Hugoye</em> article is dynamically integrated with the bibliography and cross-referencing scheme of the Portal, the researcher is them able to discover more recent publications on the same Syriac poetry. At the same time, she follows the suggested cross-references to explore the relationship of Syriac commentary on the binding of Isaac to different interpretative traditions in medieval Judaism and Islam. The researcher eventually publishes an article comparing these traditions and submits a copy to her institution’s open access repository with Syriac as a keyword in the metadata. An automated harvester for the Syriac Reference Portal finds this keyword and sends a notice of her article to the bibliography editors who accept the citation for inclusion in the Syriac Reference Portal.</p> -->
<h3>User Scenario Three: Educational and Public Users</h3>
<p>A teacher in an introductory college course on the history of the Middle East
wants students to do an independent study project that will challenge
assumptions about the cultural divide between Middle Eastern and European
civilizations. The teacher assigns students to use the online resources of
Syriaca.org including the <a href="bibl/index.html">
<em>Syriaca.org Works Cited</em>
</a> page to find documents in English translation from Syriac authors.
Links between the <a href="geo/index.html">
<em>The Syriac Gazetteer</em>
</a> and the <a href="bibl/index.html">
<em>Syriaca.org Works Cited</em>
</a> allow the students to place their reading in a geographical context.
Links between <a href="geo/index.html">
<em>The Syriac Gazetteer</em>
</a> and other ancient world geographic resources such as <a href="http://pleiades.stoa.org/">
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