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Encoding of Ancient Texts (Leiden, EpiDoc, EAGLE, SoSOL) (March 2)

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Encoding of Ancient Texts (Leiden, EpiDoc, EAGLE, SoSOL)

March 2, 2016: 17h00-18h15 CET

Federico Aurora (University of Oslo), Gabriel Bodard (University of London), and Simona Stoyanova (King's College London)


Summary:

This class will introduce students to some methods, standards and best practices in the encoding of ancient text. We will discuss the principles of XML markup and the mapping between the Leiden conventions and the TEI/EpiDoc standard. A case study on Mycenaean will discuss in more depth the process of designing and implementing a standard for text encoding of non-alphabetic scripts which currently stretches the limits of the TEI. The discussions will be followed by a short introduction to tools and guidelines, and a tutorial including a live demonstration.

Required Reading:

Further Reading:

Essay title:

Discuss the importance of the use of open, community standards (such as TEI XML or EpiDoc) for the encoding of digital editions of ancient texts. You may consider issues such as dissemination, accessibility, re-use and analysis of the editions.

Practical exercise:

Three options:

  1. EITHER: mark up three texts of your choice (some sample inscriptions or papyri or Mycenaean tablets or English inscriptions ) in EpiDoc using Oxygen. Encode (i) the transcribed text according to Leiden/EpiDoc correspondence; (ii) any personal or place names in the text, disambiguating to SNAP/Pelagios where possible.
  2. OR: with your tutor’s guidance, use the Papyri.info tags-free editor to markup the transcribed text of your three examples according to EpiDoc principles, then download the XML to your computer, and tag place and personal names in Oxygen;
  3. OR: with your tutor’s guidance, select three papyrological texts that are not yet transcribed in the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri, and use the SoSOL editor to mark up the texts according to DDbDP principles.
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