The Syriaca.org Project

SYRIAC WATCH: Texas A&M-Led Humanities Project Seeks To Preserve An Endangered Language. The team is working to preserve Syriac, a 2,000-year-old language that once flourished in the Middle East and Central Asia (Reyes Ramirez, Texas A&M University College of Arts and Sciences).

Texas A&M University historian Dr. Daniel Schwartz has devoted the last decade of his professional life to preserving the past — specifically, the culture of a 2,000-year-old language known as Syriac. He and likeminded colleagues from around the world have been working across place, time and cyberspace to safeguard Syriac cultural heritage, painstakingly creating Syriaca.org, a cyberinfrastructure to link Syriac literature to their persons, places, manuscripts and key concepts.

This spring, they received another big assist from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) — a three-year, $350,000 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant to “preserve and provide access to collections essential to scholarship, education and public programming in the humanities.” The grant marks the team’s third from NEH since 2012.

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I have mentioned the Syriaca.org Project here and here.

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