Digital Epigraphy is a very specific research field, which has made considerable advances in the last ten years. The pioneers were projects dealing with Latin and Greek epigraphy, which have published nearly all (and still few indeed) of the available volumes dealing with Digital Epigraphy. This book intends to enlarge the perspective, making the state of the art on global Digital Epigraphy. This open access, peer-reviewed book is a miscellany volume collecting 19 contributions on Digital Epigraphy projects, presenting the major methodological and technical challenges they have been facing in digitizing epigraphic corpora of different cultural contexts. The projects, presented in the volume by their directors and collaborators, were selected to represent the state of the art and the most advanced research on Digital Epigraphy. In particular, the contributions focus on the research topics that have proved to be most challenging during the development of the ERC project “DASI-Digital Archive for the Study of pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions”, in which the two editors of the book have been engaged since 2011: encoding, lexicography and interoperability. By collecting different experiences in one place, the volume aims at understanding the shared questions and at comparing the different solutions adopted, and eventually at investigating the future directions of the research in the field.

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