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Sunoikisis Digital Classics: Fall 2021

Session 2: Text Encoding I: EpiDoc

Thursday Oct 14, 17:15–18:45 CEST

Convenors: Gabriel Bodard (U of London), Polina Yordanova (Helsinki)

Youtube link: https://youtu.be/_yocloUZGfw

Slides: Google Presentation ; downloadable PDF

Session outline

In this session we will introduce the principles of XML markup for transcriptions and critical editions of ancient texts, using the example of TEI EpiDoc XML for encoding documentary texts such as inscriptions and papyri. After a brief introduction to the principles of epigraphic text editing and the Leiden System, we will give an overview of the rules of XML, and introduce the XML text editing tool Oxygen. We will then introduce a few important features of EpiDoc XML encoding that go beyond the simple brackets and sigla of Leiden, including abbreviations, complex lacunae, and editorial corrections. An exercise will be available for students to try out the encoding skills for themselves, including the option to display your results in the EpiDoc publication platform EFES.

Seminar readings

  • Monica Berti, Bridget Almas et al. 2015. "The Linked Fragment: TEI and the Encoding of Text Reuses of Lost Authors." Journal of the TEI 8 (2014-15). Available: http://doi.org/10.4000/jtei.1218
  • Irene Vagionakis. 2021. “Cretan Institutional Inscriptions: A New EpiDoc Database” Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative. Available: https://doi.org/10.4000/jtei.3570

Further reading

  • Alison Babeu (2011). "Epigraphy". “Rome Wasn’t Digitized in a Day”: Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classicists Draft Version 1.3—11/18/10, pp. 96–115. CLIR: Washington. Available: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub150
  • Ryan Baumann (2013). "The Son of Suda On-Line." In ed. Dunn & Mahony The Digital Classicist 2013. BICS Supplement 122. Pp. 91–106. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/10161/8414
  • Gabriel Bodard. 2008. “The Inscriptions of Aphrodisias as electronic publication: A user's perspective and a proposed paradigm.” In Digital Medievalist 4 (2008). Available: http://doi.org/10.16995/dm.19
  • Gabriel Bodard. 2010. “EpiDoc: Epigraphic Documents in XML for Publication and Interchange.” In F. Feraudi-Gruénais( ed.) Latin On Stone: epigraphic research and electronic archives (Lexington Books, 2010), pp. 101–118.
  • G. Bodard & S. Stoyanova (2016). “Epigraphers and Encoders: Strategies for Teaching and Learning Digital Epigraphy.” In Bodard/Romanello (eds.) Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber: Teaching, Knowledge Exchange & Public Engagement. (London: Ubiquity Press). Pp. 51–68. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bat.d
  • H. Cayless, C. Roueché et al., "Epigraphy in 2017." Digital Humanities Quarterly 3.1 (2009). Available: http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/1/000030/000030.html
  • S. Dee, M. Foradi & F. Saric. 2016. “Learning by Doing: Learning to Implement the TEI Guidelines Through Digital Classics Publication.” In: Romanello M. & Bodard G (eds.), Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber: Teaching, Knowledge Exchange & Public Engagement. London: Ubiquity Press. Available: https://doi.org/10.5334/bat.b
  • Julia Flanders & Charlotte Roueché. 2006 (2021). “Introduction To Markup For Epigraphers.” Stoa Review 2021. Available: https://blog.stoa.org/archives/4084
  • Liuzzo, Pietro Maria. “Chapter 2: Comparing Inscriptions” Digital Approaches to Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies. Aethiopica Supplement 8. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019. Pp. 47–74. Available: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvrnfr3q.8
  • 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://blog.stoa.org/archives/1263

Other resources

Exercise

  1. In preparation for this session, you should install and activate the 30-day free trial version of the Oxygen XML Editor.
    • (If you prefer not to install the trial version of Oxygen, you may also work with Sublime Text Editor or Atom Editor, or even a simple text editor on your computer.)
  2. Create EpiDoc files for 2 or 3 inscriptions or papyri of your choice. Encode the features of the ancient text using the Leiden-to-Epidoc equivalencies presented in this session and on the EpiDoc Quick-reference sheet.

Exercise 2 (optional)

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