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London April 2023
- Date: April 25–26, 2023 (starting 11:00 Tuesday; finishing 16:00 Wednesday)
- Venue: Room 349, Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, University of London
- Cost: £40/ £20 unwaged and unfunded
- Tutors: Gabriel Bodard & Simona Stoyanova
We invite applications for a two-day intensive training workshop in the use of EpiDoc (http://epidoc.sf.net/), the de facto standard for encoding ancient epigraphic and papyrological editions in TEI XML for online publication and interchange. The workshop will introduce the encoding of ancient texts in XML, and sources of information and support on EpiDoc. No technical knowledge is required, but participants are expected to be familiar with the transcription conventions for inscriptions and papyri (“Leiden”), and either Greek, Latin or other ancient languages of their epigraphic tradition.
- Before you arrive download the Oxygen XML Editor and install a 30-day trial license on your computer.
- Create a new folder on your computer and download into it (right-click the link and download source):
- If you have a corpus or some inscriptions/papyri you would like to work on, please feel free to bring them with you (ideally as digital files).
Prior to the workshop, please watch at least the following short videos:
- The Rules of XML (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (19 min)
- Introduction to EpiDoc Guidelines (Irene Vagionakis) (13 min)
- EpiDoc Transcription Quick-Reference (QuickRef) (Gabriel Bodard) (10 min)
- Structure of an EpiDoc Edition (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (18 min)
- Abbreviations (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (8 min)
- Complex lacunae (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (14 min)
Programme of day
- 11:00 Welcome and introductions
- 11:30 Getting started encoding
- 12:00 Encoding exercise
- 13:00–14:30 Lunch
- 14:30 Advanced text encoding and guided practice
- 16:00 Private practice
- 17:30 Join us in a local beer garden (Royal National Hotel)
Optional further viewing:
- Origins, goals and contributions to EpiDoc (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (27 min)
- Semantic Markup example (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (9 min)
- Introduction to Oxygen XML Editor (Gabriel Bodard) (19 min)
- Latin inscription example in Oxygen (Irene Vagionakis) (17 min)
- Greek inscription example in Oxygen (Gabriel Bodard) (34 min)
- Symbols (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (10 min)
Before the session, watch at least the following:
- 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)
- Structure QuickReference (PDF) (Irene Vagionakis) (5 min)
- Description of Object (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (9 min)
- Origin date (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (18 min)
- Origin and locations of object (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (12 min)
Programme of day
- 10:00 Room open
- 11:00 Session starts: Guided practice and questions about advanced encoding
- 12:00 Encoding description and history of object
- 13:00–14:30 Lunch
- 14:30 Guided practice
- 15:30 Discussion and feedback
- 16:00 Session ends
Optional further viewing:
- Apparatus Criticus (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (26 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 campus or layout (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (5 min)
- Description of Hands, Lettering and Script (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (10 min)
Notes and questions:
- Quick and easy visualiser: ISicily EpiDoc viewer
- Markup list
- All EpiDoc tutorial videos
- List of EpiDoc projects
- EpiDoc Feature Requests and Bugs
- Learn Regular Expressions (Regex)
- Learn XPath
EFES
- Tutorial on Displaying EpiDoc files using EFES (18 min)
- Download EFES