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SunoikisisDC Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage, Spring 2023

Thursday January 19, 2023, starting at 16:00 GMT = 17:00 CET (for 90 minutes)

Convenors: Gabriel Bodard (University of London), Martina Filosa (University of Köln), Usama Gad (Ain Shams University, Cairo)

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Outline

This session introduces the EpiDoc encoding scheme and toolset for recording and publishing text and descriptions of ancient material texts, in particular on inscriptions and related objects such as papyri, seals, stamps and coins. We discuss the features of an ancient text-bearing object that are important to record in transparent and machine-readable form, including description, history, prior scholarship, translations, process and use of standards. Students will have an opportunity to encode some objects in XML themselves and think about features that are not clearly documented in EpiDoc guidance.

Seminar readings

Further reading

  • Lisa Anderson & Heidi Wendt. 2014. "Ancient Relationships, Modern Intellectual Horizons: The practical challenges and possibilities of encoding Greek and Latin inscriptions." In ed. M.T. Rutz & M.M. Kersel, Archaeologies of Text: Archaeology, Technology, and Ethics. Oxbow Books (Joukowsky Institute Publication 6). Pp. 164–175.
  • Monica Berti. 2019. "Historical Fragmentary Texts in the Digital Age." In ed. Berti, Digital Classical Philology: Ancient Greek and Latin in the Digital Revolution, pp. 257–276. Available: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110599572-015
  • Antonio E. Felle & Norbert Zimmermann. 2014. “Epigraphy, Art History, Archaelogy: A Case of Interaction between Research Projects: The Epigraphic Database Bari (UniBa, Italy) and the Domitilla Projekt (ÖAW, Austria).” In Orlandi, Santucci et al. (edd.) Information Technologies for Epigraphy and Cultural Heritage Proceedings of the First EAGLE International Conference. Pp. 95–116. Available: http://www.eagle-network.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Paris-Conference-Proceedings.pdf
  • Julia Flanders & Scott Hamlin. 2013. "TAPAS: Building a TEI Publishing and Repository Service." Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative 5. Available: https://doi.org/10.4000/jtei.788

Other resources

Exercise

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