EpiDoc

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

The first major - but not the only - epigraphic project, which took over the EpiDoc guidelines in a pilot project, were the inscriptions of Aphrodisias and Violanda Tablets Online in the years 2002 to 2004 At that time, the guidelines reached for the first time a degree of stability.. Since then EpiDoc has been adopted as the common format for Greek Papyrology site Papyri.info.

The EpiDoc scheme and the guidelines may also, possibly with local adjustments are applied to related areas such as palaeography sphragistics and numismatics.

Guidelines

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

Tools

Developed by and for EpiDoc tools include:

  • The EpiDoc webapp available in the archive SourceForge ( the same application is used for the dissemination of guidelines ).
  • The EpiDoc Cross Walker, a tool for the transformation of data in both directions between EpiDoc and other coding and markup systems and databases (in progress).
  • CHET -C ( Chapel Hill Electronic Text Converter ), an application that was originally written to VBA as an independent Java app, and is available as stand-alone Javascript platform, written by Hugh Cayless, now available. A Python and XSLT version of CHET -C as part of the IDP project in the works.
  • Transcoder: a Java tool for immediate conversion between beta code, Unicode NF C, Unicode NF D, and Greek Keys encoding for Greek script ( download link will be provided ).

Projects

  • Concordia, King's College London, and New York University
  • Inscriptions of Aphrodisias, King's College London, United Kingdom
  • Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica, KCL
  • Merging digital Papyrology ( "Integrating Digital papyrology " ) ( Duke University, Columbia University, Heidelberg University, King's College London, University of Kentucky ), now under http://papyri.info/
  • U.S. Epigraphy Project, Brown University, supervision RI, USA
  • Vindolanda Tablets Online, Oxford University, United Kingdom
  • 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 (ed. Sanchez- Alonso & Athanasiadis ), Metadata and semantic research ( Springer 2010), pp. 222-234. Available at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/j71267848rvj8522/ ( paywall ) (accessed January 6, 2011 )
  • Alison Babeu, ' Epigraphy ', " Rome Was not 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 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 6 January 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 at before print publication: 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 6. January 2011)
  • Julia Flanders & Charlotte Roueché, 'Introduction for Epigraphers ', ( January 6, 2011, Access ) online at http://epidoc.sf.net/IntroEpigraphers.shtml
  • Marion Lamé, ' Pour une codification historique the inscriptions ', Rivista Storica dell'Antiquità 38 (2008 ), pp. 213-225. Italian translation, " Per una delle codifica storica Iscrizioni ', Griselda online, 2008 online at:. Http://www.griseldaonline.it/informatica/lame.htm
  • Anne Mahoney, ' Epigraphy ', in (ed. Burnard, O'Brien & 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 7 April 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 19 August, 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.
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