Selb, Walter Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The National Endowment for the Humanities The International Balzan Prize Foundation James E. Walters David A. Michelson Thomas A. Carlson Nathan P. Gibson Editing, document design, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson Matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters Editing, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson Normalization of GEDSH dates and entry matching with viaf.org records by Alex Vawter Editorial oversight for GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry, and proofreading by Christopher Johnson GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry and proofreading by the Syriac Research Group, University of Alabama Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts and addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH by Nathan P. Gibson Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal http://syriaca.org/person/728/tei

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Significant updates to syriacaAll and syriacaPersons schemas have required updates to data and fixing of errors in the data. The most significant updates were to the relation, status, and seriesStmt elements and to the @ana att on person and personGrp. Major updates to data model in conjunction with schema work requiring some updates to data as well. CHANGED: Implemented July 2020 batch changes, see https://github.com/srophe/srophe-app-data/issues/878. Update persName texts nodes from new headwords. Split names in authors into forename and surname. Create English headword from Gedesh headword. ADDED: Renumbered bibl xml:id attributes and source references to be sequential. ADDED: Abstracts, citation, additional names and confessions from GEDSH. ADDED: syriaca-computed-end for elements with date attributes CREATED: person Selb, Walter Selb, Walter http://syriaca.org/person/728 http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/SRP|person_728 http://viaf.org/viaf/36929841 http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82-25211 http://viaf.org/viaf/207972575 http://viaf.org/viaf/162645444 http://viaf.org/viaf/203462603 http://viaf.org/viaf/98200621 Jurist and historian of Law; professor at the University of Vienna. 5/22/1929 6/2/1994 Author H. Kaufhold Selb, Walter The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage 364-365 364-365