{"title":"6 Inscriptions from Ethiopia. Encoding Inscriptions in Beta Maṣāḥǝft","authors":"A. Bausi, P. Liuzzo","doi":"10.1515/9783110607208-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110607208-007","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the available corpus of inscriptions from the Ethiopian and Eritrean regions giving an overview of this documentation. Some of the challenges involved with the inclusion of these documents in the Beta Maṣāḥǝft project are presented: the connection to already digitally encoded texts, the encoding of the parallel fidal (i.e. Ethiopian script) and transcribed text, and the structuring of the data for the pseudo-trilingual inscription RIÉ nos 185 and 270 (that also has a second copy).","PeriodicalId":302139,"journal":{"name":"Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116573235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"9 A Methodological Framework for the Epigraphic South Arabian Lexicography. The Case of the Sabaic Online Dictionary","authors":"Anne Multhoff","doi":"10.1515/9783110607208-010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110607208-010","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the concept and functionalities of an online reference dictionary for Sabaic, aiming to present all extant lexical material of this Ancient South Arabian language. After introducing the features of the corpus, several methodological issues, and the solutions adopted within the project are illustrated, focusing in particular on the annotation of morphological analysis (treatment of ambiguous forms, homographs, heterographs with identical meaning, variant readings, incorrect forms). The conception developed to present the material online is also described.","PeriodicalId":302139,"journal":{"name":"Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy","volume":"41 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129129202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1 Encoding, Interoperability, Lexicography: Digital Epigraphy Through the Lens of DASI Experience","authors":"A. Avanzini, A. D. Santis, Irene Rossi","doi":"10.1515/9783110607208-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110607208-002","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the main challenges faced and the solutions adopted in the frame of the project DASI – Digital archive for the study of pre-Islamic Arabian inscriptions. In particular, it discusses the methodological and technological issues that emerged during the conversion from the CSAI – Corpus of South Arabian inscriptions project (a domain-specific, text-based, digital edition conceived at the end of 1990s) to the wider DASI archive for the study of inscriptions in different languages and scripts of ancient Arabia. The paper devotes special attention to: the modelling of data and encoding (XML annotation vs database approach; the conceptual model for the valorisation of the material aspect of the epigraph; the textual encoding for critical editions); interoperability (pros and cons of compliance to standards; harmonization of metadata; openness; semantic interoperability); lexicography (tools for underresourced languages; translations), with a view to possibly fostering reasoning on best practices in the community of digital epigraphers beyond each specific cultural/ linguistic domain.","PeriodicalId":302139,"journal":{"name":"Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133459286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. J. Estarán, Francisco Beltrán, E. Orduña, J. Gorrochategui
{"title":"3 Hesperia, a Database for Palaeohispanic Languages; and AELAW, a Database for the Ancient European Languages and Writings. Challenges, Solutions, Prospects","authors":"M. J. Estarán, Francisco Beltrán, E. Orduña, J. Gorrochategui","doi":"10.1515/9783110607208-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110607208-004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":302139,"journal":{"name":"Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127669010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"15 Trismegistos: Optimizing Interoperability for Texts from the Ancient World","authors":"M. Depauw","doi":"10.1515/9783110607208-016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110607208-016","url":null,"abstract":"Although its origins lie with the Prosopographia Ptolemaica, a project studying people who lived in Ptolemaic Egypt (332–30 BCE), Trismegistos has developed into an interdisciplinary platform for the study of the ancient world in general, from 800 BCE to 800 CE: texts, places, people, collections. Setting up this very divergent set of databases has only been possible through the availability of full text corpora, new digital processing techniques, and the “exponentiality” permitted by interconnectivity. By bringing everything together in a single environment, Trismegistos has facilitated quantitative studies of several phenomena, but this approach remains promising and will hopefully become more widespread. TM’s main aim, however, is interoperability through the spread of stable identifiers, as an instrument to build a Linked Open Data environment for the ancient world.","PeriodicalId":302139,"journal":{"name":"Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129043064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"List of Figures and Tables","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110607208-024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110607208-024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":302139,"journal":{"name":"Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115103802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Appendix A","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110607208-022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110607208-022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":302139,"journal":{"name":"Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115261727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"18 EPIDAT – Research Platform for Jewish Epigraphy","authors":"T. Kollatz","doi":"10.1515/9783110607208-019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110607208-019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":302139,"journal":{"name":"Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127583675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusions","authors":"Annamaria De Santis, I. Rossi","doi":"10.1515/9783110607208-021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110607208-021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":302139,"journal":{"name":"Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117094663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"19 I. Sicily: Building a Digital Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient Sicily","authors":"J. Prag, J. Chartrand","doi":"10.1515/9783110607208-020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110607208-020","url":null,"abstract":": This paper presents the I.Sicily project. We focus first upon its original rationale and construction, since this provides explanations for the particular choices and approaches adopted, before exploring some of the challenges faced, as well as current and future developments. We believe that I.Sicily offers an interesting case study of a deliberately open-ended, continuous work-in-progress corpus. The project is constructed on the assumption that collaboration is key to its success, and that collaboration will only increase. We examine the potential for the creation of Linked Open Data, which we consider essential to creating the primary point of reference for the study of Sicilian epigraphy, and to the creation of a resource to support and facilitate research while simultaneously enhancing and supporting the accessibility of Sicilian epigraphy. This last aim is served both directly through the project’s web-interface, and indirectly by supporting and facilitating the work of the institutions which curate the majority of the material: we conclude with an illustration of a wide-ranging, museum-based, community collaboration.","PeriodicalId":302139,"journal":{"name":"Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122850953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}