EpiDoc
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.
The EpiDoc schema and guidelines may also be applied, perhaps with some local modification to related palaeolgraphical fields including Papyrology (projects in progress), Sigillography, and Numismatics.
Guidelines
The EpiDoc Guidelines are available in two forms:
- the stable guidelines, released periodically and available at: http://www.stoa.org/epidoc/gl/ (Current version 5)
- the source code, available in its most up-to-date form in the repository at SourceForge; the GL source files are a series of XML documents
Tools
Tool developed by and for the EpiDoc community include:
- The EpiDoc webapp, available from the SourceForge repository (the same application is used to deliver the guidelines).
- The EpiDoc Crosswalker, a tool to transform data in both directions between EpiDoc and other encoding schemes, markup schemas, and databases. (In progress.)
- CHET-C (the Chapel Hill Electronic Text-Converter), an 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. [1] (A Python and XSLT version of CHET-C is under construction as part of the IDP project.)
- 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).
Projects
- Concordia, King's College London and New York University
- Inscriptions of Aphrodisias, King's College London, UK
- Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica, KCL
- Integrating Digital Papyrology (Duke University, Columbia University, Heidelberg University, King's College London, University of Kentucky), see now http://papyri.info/
- US Epigraphy Project, Brown University, Providence RI, USA
- Vindolanda Tablets Online, Oxford University, UK
- Etruscan Texts Project, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst MA, USA
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: http://www.springerlink.com/content/j71267848rvj8522/ (accessed 2011-01-06)
- 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://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: http://archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/29592 (accessed 2011-01-06)
- Gabriel Bodard, 'The Inscriptions of Aphrodisias as electronic publication: A user's perspective and a proposed paradigm' in Digital Medievalist 4 (2008), available http://digitalmedievalist.org/journal/4/bodard/ (accessed 2011-01-06)
- 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'. Pre-press available: http://www.stoa.org/archives/1226 (accessed 2011-01-06)
- Hugh Cayless, Charlotte Roueché et al., 'Epigraphy in 2017', Digital Humanities Quarterly 3.1 (2009), available: http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/1/000030/000030.html (accessed 2011-01-06)
- Julia Flanders & Charlotte Roueché, 'Introduction for Epigraphers', online at http://epidoc.sf.net/IntroEpigraphers.shtml (available: 2006-04-25)
- 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: 2006-04-07)
- Charlotte Roueché & Gabriel Bodard, 'The Epidoc Aphrodisias Pilot Project', Forum Archaeologiae 23/VI/2002, online at http://farch.net (accessed: 2006-04-07)
- 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, 19 August 2010, Geneva. Available: http://www.stoa.org/archives/1263 (accessed 2011-01-06)
- Charlotte Tupman, 'Contextual epigraphy and XML: digital publication and its application to the study of inscribed funerary monuments', in (eds. Bodard & Mahony) Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity (Ashgate, 2010), pp. 73–86.
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