EpiDoc

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The EpiDoc community, which develops recommendations for structured markup of epigraphic documents in TEI - XML , was originally founded in 2000 by scientists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill : Tom Elliott, the former director of the Ancient World Mapping Center, together with Hugh Cayless and Amy Hawkins. The guidelines have matured considerably through extensive discussions in the context of the markup list and other discussion forums, at several conferences and through the experience of numerous pilot projects.

The first major - but by no means the only - epigraphic project that took over the EpiDoc guidelines in a pilot project were the inscriptions by Aphrodisias and Vindolanda Tablets Online in the years 2002 to 2004. At this time, the guidelines achieved a degree of stability for the first time. Since then, EpiDoc has been adopted as the popular format for the Greek papyrology website Papyri.info.

The EpiDoc scheme and guidelines can also be applied, possibly with local adjustments, to related palaeographic areas such as sphragistics and numismatics .

Guidelines

The EpiDoc guidelines ("Guidelines") are available in two versions:

  1. the stable guidelines that are issued regularly.
  2. the source code, which is available in the latest version in the archive of SourceForge. The original files of the guidelines consist of a series of XML documents.

Tools

The tools developed by and for EpiDoc include:

  • The EpiDoc web app, available in the SourceForge archive (the same application is used for the dissemination of the guidelines).
  • The EpiDoc Crosswalker, a tool for transforming data in both directions between EpiDoc and other coding and markup systems and databases (in progress).
  • CHET-C (the Chapel Hill Electronic Text Converter), an application originally written in VBA, then as a standalone Java app, and now available as a standalone JavaScript platform written by Hugh Cayless. [1] A Python and XSLT version of CHET-C are in the works as part of the IDP project.
  • Transcoder: a Java tool for instant conversion between Beta Code, Unicode NF C, Unicode NF D, and GreekKeys encoding for Greek script (the download link will be provided).

Projects

bibliography

  • Fernando-Luis Álvarez, Elena García-Barriocanal and Joaquín-L. Gómez-Pantoja, 'Sharing Epigraphic Information as Linked Data', in (Eds. Sanchez-Alonso & Athanasiadis), Metadata and semantic research (Springer 2010), pp. 222–234. Available at: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-16552-8_21 (PAYWALL) (accessed January 6, 2011)
  • Alison Babeu, 'Epigraphy', “Rome Wasn't Digitized in a Day”: Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classicists Draft Version 1.3-11 / 18/10 , pp. 73-89. CLIR, 2010. Online at: http://wayback.archive.org/web/20110911141544/http://www.clir.org/pubs/archives/Babeu2010.pdf .
  • Roger S. Bagnall, 'Integrating Digital Papyrology', presented at Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come , University of Virginia, March 26–28, 2010. Available at: http://archive.nyu.edu/handle/ 2451/29592 (accessed January 6, 2011)
  • Gabriel Bodard, 'The Inscriptions of Aphrodisias as electronic publication: A user's perspective and a proposed paradigm' in Digital Medievalist 4 (2008), available at: http://digitalmedievalist.org/journal/4/bodard/ (accessed January 6 2011)
  • Gabriel Bodard, 'EpiDoc: Epigraphic Documents in XML for Publication and Interchange', in (Ed. F. Feraudi-Gruénais) Latin On Stone: epigraphic research and electronic archives (Lexington Books, 2010), pp. 101-118.
  • Gabriel Bodard, 'Digital Epigraphy and Lexicographical and Onomastic Markup'. Available prior to print at: http://www.stoa.org/archives/1226 (accessed January 6, 2011)
  • Hugh Cayless, Charlotte Roueché, et al. , 'Epigraphy in 2017', Digital Humanities Quarterly 3.1 (2009), available at: http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/1/000030/000030.html (accessed January 6, 2011)
  • Julia Flanders & Charlotte Roueché, 'Introduction for Epigraphers', online at http://epidoc.sf.net/IntroEpigraphers.shtml (accessed January 6, 2011)
  • Marion Lamé, 'Pour une codification historique des inscriptions', Rivista Storica dell'Antiquità 38 (2008), pp. 213-225. Italian translation, 'Per una codifica storica delle iscrizioni', Griselda Online , 2008. Online at: http://www.griseldaonline.it/informatica/lame.htm
  • Anne Mahoney, 'Epigraphy', in (Eds. Burnard, O'Brian & Unsworth) Electronic Textual Editing (2006), preview online at http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/ETE/Preview/mahoney.xml (Accessed January 6, 2011)
  • Charlotte Roueché & Gabriel Bodard, 'The Epidoc Aphrodisias Pilot Project', Forum Archaeologiae 23 / VI / 2002, online at http://farch.net (accessed April 7, 2006)
  • Charlotte Roueché, 'Digitizing Inscribed Texts', in Text Editing, Print and the Digital World (Ashgate, 2008) pp. 159-168.
  • Joshua D. Sosin, 'Digital Papyrology', Congress of the International Association of Papyrologists, August 19, 2010, Geneva. Available: http://www.stoa.org/archives/1263 (accessed January 6, 2011)
  • Charlotte Tupman, 'Contextual epigraphy and XML: digital publication and its application to the study of inscribed funerary monuments', in (Ed. Bodard & Mahony) Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity (Ashgate, 2010), pp. 73-86 .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archives of MARKUP@LSV.UKY.EDU ( English ) The Stoa Consortium. Retrieved March 28, 2019.
  2. ↑ Index of / epidoc / gl ( English ) The Stoa Consortium. Retrieved March 28, 2019.
  3. ↑ EpiDoc Guidelines post-9.0 dev ( English ) The Stoa Consortium. Retrieved March 28, 2019.
  4. ↑ EpiDoc: Epigraphic Documents in TEI XML ( English ) SourceForge. Retrieved March 28, 2019.