It should be obvious I'm no syriac expert (though I think it's a lot more important than it's given its due).
But I was doing some background reading on Jan Wilson whose book in the Gorgias Collection I'm so intrigued with.
That led me to the 1999 'Third International Forum on Syriac Computing' at Notre Dame. George Kiraz from 'Bell Laboratories' was the chair (remember Bell Labs everyone?).
Anyway the topics are so interesting given Logos 'almost there' syriac resources combined with its search / analytical engine. What is discussed by the clear experts then can now be looked on by a much broader audience, thanks to Logos and its experts.
Table of Contents
Michael SOKOLOFF. TAG: A Multilingual Desktop Publishing Program for Users of Hebrew, Syriac, and other
Typefaces 6
Sargon HASSO, George KIRAZ, Paul NELSON. Encoding Syriac in ISO/IEC 10646 (Unicode) 12
Paul NELSON. Demonstration of Syriac Computing using the Windows Operating System 19
Jan WILSON. The Use of WordCruncher Software Electronic Publishing of Syriac Texts 21
Amy AGNEW. Leading Students to Syriac Resources on the World Wide Web: Retrieval and Evaluation Skills 22
Thomas JOSEPH. The SOR Web Site: The Spiritual Heritage of the Syrian Orthodox Tradition at a Keystroke 28
Robert KITCHEN. The Soul of a New Encyclopedia: The Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage 34
Giorigio BUSATTO and Alessandro MENGOZZI. A Project for Computer Assisted Study of Neo-Syriac Texts 41
Tony Khoshaba and Rabi Yoab Benjamin. Talking English-Assyrian Dictionary 46
Konrad Jenner and Eep Talstra. Computer Assisted Linguistic Analysis of the Peshitta (CALAP) 52
Jan, in her 'Logos' book has a good story on early women working in the syriac, digging around St Catherine's (Lewis sisters). In a way it's kind of funny, but I'm certainly impressed.
