EpiDoc
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The EpiDoc Collaborative, building recommendations for structured markup of epigraphic documents in TEI XML, was originally formed in 2000 by scholars at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Tom Elliott, the former director of the Ancient World Mapping Center, with Hugh Cayless and Amy Hawkins. The guidelines have matured considerably through extensive discussion on the Markup list and other discussion fora, at several conferences, and through the experience of various pilot projects. The first major—but not by any means the only—epigraphic project to adopt and pilot the EpiDoc recommendations has been the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias, and the guidelines have reached a degree of stability for the first time during this process.
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[edit] Guidelines
The EpiDoc Guidelines are available in two forms:
- the stable guidelines, released periodically and available via the Stoa Consortium (direct link to follow)
- the source code, available in its most up-to-date form in the CVS repository at SourceForge; the GL source files are a series of XML
[edit] Tools
Tool developed by and for the EpiDoc community include:
- The EpiDoc webapp, available from the SourceForge CVS repository (the same application is used to deliver the guidelines
- CHET-C (the Chapel Hill Electronic Text-Converter), and application originally written in VBA, then as a free-standing Java app, and now available as a self-contained Javascript platform written by Hugh Cayless (direct link to follow)
- Transcoder: a Java tool for converting between Beta Code, Unicode NF C, Unicode NF D, and GreekKeys encoding for Greek script on the fly (download link to follow)
[edit] Projects
- Inscriptions of Aphrodisias, King's College London, UK
- US Epigraphy Project, Brown University, Providence RI, USA
- Vindolanda Tablets Online, Oxford University, UK
[edit] Bibliography
- G. Bodard / Ch. Roueché, 'The Epidoc Aphrodisias Pilot Project', Forum Archaeologiae 23/VI/2002, online at [1] (available: 2006-04-07)
- G. Bodard, 'Digital Epigraphy and Lexicographical and Onomastic Markup', in (edd. Aitken, Fraser, Thompson) Greek Lexicography, (forthcoming 2006).
- J. Flanders / C. Roueché, 'Introduction for Epigraphers', online at [2] (available: 2006-04-25)
- A. Mahoney, 'Epigraphy', in (edd. Burnard, O'Brian, Unsworth) Electronic Textual Editing (2006), preview online at [3] (available: 2006-04-07)
