Codicological Visualization of a Syriac Manuscript with VisCodex
A data model for modelling and visualizing the structure of books in codex formats has existed since the middle of…
Category: Syriac Studies
The Syriac Digital Humanities: An Interview with George A. Kiraz, Part 3
This is the fourth post of a series by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac, based on his interview…
The Digital Syriac Corpus: An Interview with Prof. James E. Walters
In addition to the contributions of the Beth Mardutho Institute to the world of Syriac Digital Humanities (which I have…
‘Back to the Sources’: The First Steps in (Digital) Projects
During my training I was lucky enough to benefit from some of the most authoritative voices in the field of…
Social Media and the Distribution of Knowledge about Missing Syriac Manuscripts
A few months ago, I noticed a plethora of posts on social media about the discovery of the hidden library…
Google Lens for Syriac: Something Groundbreaking?
Recently, Google updated its engine on many smartphones in order to add the new technology of Google Lens to its…
The Syriac Digital Humanities: An Interview with George A. Kiraz, Part 2
This is the third part of a series of posts by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac, based on…
Some Short Reflections on Lists
In the past, the Digital Orientalist celebrated the virtues of brevity by regularly publishing short pieces, thoughts, and reflections. Some…
Re-Discovering MS Zafaran N. 12: A story of the power of social media and on finding lost materials in digital archives
For two years now, I have searched for a manuscript on the Synod of Hattackh of 1576. In the 1956,…
Brief Notes on OCR and the Automated Transcription of Syriac Books
Recently, I have been experimenting to see how well Google Docs can transcribe and perform OCR on Syriac books in…