Epigraphic and papyrological conventions

These publications are the source for the Leiden-style conventions used in the Guidelines and the Example XSLT transformations.

1. Joshua D. Sosin et al., 2011, Papyrological conventions used in Duke Databank texts, Available: http://papyri.info/conventions.html
2. Francisca Feraudi-Gruénais, Andreas Dafferner & Brigitte Ruck, 2002, EDH: Handbuch zur Epigraphischen Datenbank Heidelberg, Available: http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~f56/misc/edh-handbuch.pdf
3. Marcus Dohnicht, Zusammenstellung der diakritischen Zeichen zur Wiedergabe der lateinischen Inschrifttexte der Antike für den Unicode (Entwurft Juli 2000), http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/varia/unicode/Dohnicht.pdf
4. Sterling Dow, Conventions in editing: a suggested reformulation of the Leiden System, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies Scholarly Aids 2, Durham, 1969
5. Hans Krummrey and Silvio Panciera, Criteri di edizione e segni diacritici in Tituli 2 (1980), 205-215
6. Silvio Panciera, Struttura dei supplementi e segni diacritici dieci anni dopo in Supplementa Italica 8 (1991), 9-21
7. POxy: Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Egypt Exploration Society, 1898-
8. Louis Robert with Jeanne Robert, Fouilles d'Amyzon en Carie, Paris: De Boccard, 1983, pp. 9-11 on Signes critiques du corpus et édition
9. SEG: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Lugduni Batavorum: Sijthoff, 1923-

Texts published online with EpiDoc source available

These projects are the source of most examples used in the Guidelines.

1. Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS)
2. Aphrodisias in late Antiquity (ALA)
3. Corpus of the Inscriptions of Campā (CIC)
4. Digital Archive for the Study of pre-islamic Arabian Inscriptions (DASI)
5. The Domestication of “Hindu” Asceticism and the Religious Making of South and Southeast Asia (DHARMA)
6. Datenbank Jüdische Grabsteinepigraphik (Epidat)
7. Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDbDP)
8. Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens (HGV)
9. Inscriptions of Aphrodisias (IAph)
10. Inscriptiones antiquae Orae Septentrionalis Ponti Euxini graecae et latinae (IOSPE)
11. Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica (IGCyr)
12. Inscriptions of Israel-Palestine (IIP)
13. Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica (IRCyr)
14. Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania (IRT)
15. Inscriptiones Siciliae (ISicily)
16. Pandektis (Ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions from Upper Macedonia, Aegean Thrace and Achaia)
17. Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB)
18. Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica (GVCyr)
19. Vindolanda Tablets Online (VTO)
20. Vindolanda Tablets Online II (VTO2)

(We especially thank the authors of forthcoming corpora for sharing examples of their XML with us in advance of publication.)

Epigraphic and Papyrological Databases not primarily based on EpiDoc

1. Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (EAGLE), available: www.eagle-eagle.it/
2. Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (EDH), available: edh-www.adw.uni-heidelberg.de
3. Epigraphic Database Roma (EDR), available: edr-edr.it
4. Epigraphik Datenbank Clauss-Slaby (EDCS), available: manfredclauss.de/
5. Programme d’enregistrement, de traitement et de recherche automatique en épigraphie (PETRAE), available: http://petrae.tge-adonis.fr/index.php
6. PHI Greek Inscriptions

Bibliography on digital epigraphy and text encoding

Further reading:

1. 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/
2. Lisa Anderson & Heidi Wendt, 'Ancient Relationships, Modern Intellectual Horizons: The practical challenges and possibilities of encoding Greek and Latin inscriptions.' In ed. M.T. Rutz & M.M. Kersel, Archaeologies of Text: Archaeology, Technology, and Ethics. Oxbow Books, 2014 (Joukowsky Institute Publication 6). Pp. 164–175.
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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/
6. 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.
7. Gabriel Bodard, 'Digital Epigraphy and Lexicographical and Onomastic Markup'. Pre-press available: http://blog.stoa.org/archives/1226
8. Gabriel Bodard & Simona Stoyanova (2016). Epigraphers and Encoders: Strategies for Teaching and Learning Digital Epigraphy. In ed. Bodard/Romanello, Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber: Teaching, Knowledge Exchange and Public Engagement. London: Ubiquity Press. Pp. 51–68. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bat.d
9. Gabriel Bodard & Polina Yordanova (2020), Publication, Testing and Visualization with EFES: A tool for all stages of the EpiDoc editing process. Studia Digitalia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai 65.1, pp. 17–35. Available: https://doi.org/10.24193/subbdigitalia.2020.1.02
10. 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
11. Tim Finney, Converting Leiden-style Editions to TEI Lite XML (2001), Available: http://www.tei-c.org/Sample_Manuals/leiden.html
12. 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
13. Laura Löser (2014). Meeting the Needs of Today’s Audiences of Epigraphy with Digital Editions. In ed. Orlandi et al. Information Technologies for Epigraphy and Cultural Heritage, pp. 239–251.
14. 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
15. Silvia Orlandi, Raffaella Santucci, Vittore Casarosa & Pietro Maria Liuzzo, eds. (2014). Information Technologies for Epigraphy and Cultural Heritage. Proceedings of the First EAGLE International Conference. Rome: Sapienza Università Editrice. Available: http://www.eagle-network.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Paris-Conference-Proceedings.pdf
16. Charlotte Roueché and Gabriel Bodard, 'The Epidoc Aphrodisias Pilot Project', Forum Archaeologiae 23/VI/2002, online at http://farch.net
17. Charlotte Roueché, 'Digitizing Inscribed Texts', in Text Editing, Print and the Digital World (Ashgate, 2008) pp. 159-168.
18. Joshua D. Sosin, 'Digital Papyrology', Congress of the International Association of Papyrologists, 19 August 2010, Geneva. Available: http://blog.stoa.org/archives/1263
19. Text Encoding Initiative, P5: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange, Available: http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/index.html
20. 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.