All tutorials

This page lists all the dedicated EpiDoc tutorial videos that have been produced as teaching and learning aids by the EpiDoc community. This is an unfiltered list; you may find individual curated syllabi a useful place to start for a self-learning programme.

All videos hosted on the EpiDoc training Youtube channel.

Epigraphic background

• What is epigraphy? (slides) (Gabriel Bodard & Katherine McDonald) (33 min)
• The Leiden System (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (20 min)
• Skills needed by an epigraphist (30 min) (Gabriel Bodard, Katherine McDonald)
• Reading an inscription with raking light (5 min) (Katherine McDonald)
• Squeezes and squeeze making (13 min) (Katherine McDonald)
• Making a squeeze, demo (5 min) EXTERNAL VIDEO (Charalambos Kritzas, former Director of the Epigraphical Museum in Athens; Krateros Project video)
• Drawing inscriptions (12 min) (Katherine McDonald)

Introductions

• Origins, goals and contributions to EpiDoc (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (27 min)
• Why Publish inscriptions with XML? (slides) (Charlotte Tupman) (18 min)
• Semantic Markup example (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (9 min)
• Intro to XML (slides) (Elli Mylonas) (27 min)
• The Rules of XML (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (19 min)
• Introduction to EpiDoc Guidelines (Irene Vagionakis) (13 min)
• Introduction to Oxygen XML Editor (Gabriel Bodard) (19 min)
• Displaying EpiDoc files using EFES (Gabriel Bodard, Irene Vagionakis & Polina Yordanova) (18 min)
• Structure of an EpiDoc Edition (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (18 min)

Text encoding

• EpiDoc Transcription Quick-Reference (QuickRef) (Gabriel Bodard) (10 min)
• Latin inscription example in Oxygen (Irene Vagionakis) (17 min)
• Greek inscription example in Oxygen (Gabriel Bodard) (34 min)
• Abbreviations (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (8 min)
• Symbols (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (10 min)
• Complex lacunae (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (14 min)
• Editorial corrections (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (13 min)
• Certainty and precision (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (17 min)
• Fragments and sections of text (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (19 min)
• Verse Inscriptions (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (13 min)
• Apparatus Criticus (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (26 min)

Description and History

• Structure QuickReference (PDF) (Irene Vagionakis) (5 min)
• Edition metadata (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (16 min)
• Recording responsibility and revisions (slides) (Polina Yordanova) (5 min)
• Repository and identifier (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (6 min)
• Description of Object (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (9 min)
• Description of campus or layout (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (5 min)
• Description of Hands, Lettering and Script (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (10 min)
• Origin date (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (18 min)
• Origin and locations of object (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (12 min)

Indexing

• Authority lists (slides) (Martina Filosa) (16 min)
• Words and lemmatisation (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (18 min)
• Places mentioned in text (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (5 min)
• Names and persons (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (15 min)
• Arbitrarily indexable features (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (6 min)
• Indexing transcription features (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (5 min)

Other

• Bibliography (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (16 min)
• Including images (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (6 min)

EFES customisation

• Customising indices in EFES (slides) (Martina Filosa) (1 h 45 min)
• Customising facets in EFES, preceded by a recap on indices (slides) (Martina Filosa, Irene Vagionakis) (1 h 12 min)