Syriac Reference Portal Wiki

[First posted in AWOL 3 October 2011. Updated 3 April 2012]

Syriac Reference Portal 

Welcome to the Syriac Reference Portal Demo Page!

Below are links demonstrating the reference tools we are building.
Please note that this site is still under construction. If you encounter broken links, please contact syriac@ua.edu for assistance.
You will find a general discussion of the Portal and its aims here:

• Syriac Reference Portal General Information Page

You will find a sample article with live text and a prosopography entry here:

• Philoxenos of Mabbug Sample Article (This article may be locked if we are testing the site.)

Mock up demos (i.e. not live text) of the same are available here:

• Prosopography Browser
• Encyclopedia and Bibliography Demo

The bibliography module for the site is in progress here:

• Online Bibliography

We are also partnering with Beth Mardutho, the Syriac Institute to create an online publication repository:

• ebeth arke public domain repository (running an DSpace installation)

Sample entries for our manuscript catalogue (using TEI/ENRICH) are here:

• Syriac Manuscript Catalogue Sample TEI Entry 1
• Syriac Manuscript Catalogue Sample TEI Entry 2
• Syriac Manuscript Catalogue Sample TEI Entry 3

Finally, we are partnering with OCLC World Cat to create a Syriac authority file (or list of Syriac authors).

• Virtual International Authority File (Collaborator Website)
• Syriac Extension of Viaf (search for "Philoxenos")

Thank you for your interest!
-David Michelson, project director
Postscript for the curious: The acronym of the Portal (SRP) when rendered in Syriac as above spells "srophe" or seraphim.