A digital gazetteer records information associated with specific places. This lesson teaches you how to create a gazetteer from a historical text, using the Linked Places Delimited (LP-TSV) format.
The application of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles can revolutionise the epigraphic discipline by facilitating quantitative and reproducible research. Despite the richness of Latin inscriptions, the lack of low-barrier tools for accessing and analysing these datasets has hindered largescale studies and the uptake of FAIR and Open Science principles in ancient studies. The LatEpig v2.0 tool addresses this gap by enabling researchers to programmatically access the Epigraphic Database Clauss-Slaby, and generate reproducible research following state-of-the-art standards. The main aim of LatEpig is to democratise data access and enhance research potential without requiring advanced technical skills. A case study on ‘viator’ inscriptions exemplifies the tool’s utility, illustrating spatial and temporal trends in inscriptions addressing messengers and travellers across the Roman Empire. LatEpig exemplifies that the development of similar tools is crucial for advancing FAIR and Open Science practices in the Humanities, ensuring that substantial investments in digital resources are fully realised.
The present paper briefly describes the scope and implementation of „Pandektis‟, an open access repository containing resources of greek history and culture http://pandektis.ekt.gr) that has been developed by the Hellenics National Documentation Center of the National Hellenic Research Institute (http://www.ekt.gr). „Pandektis‟ has been developed using the open repository platform DSpace but has been configured and customized based on the requirements of each hosted digital collection. In the following, after describing the scope of the project, we report the main enhancements or customizations that we performed on the DSpace platform to accommodate the requirements of this specific digital repository implementation. The main issues that have been addressed include context-sensitive presentation and browsing of material, support of custom metadata, linking among digital artifacts and support of range queries in advanced search.
The article presents the main tools and methods applied in the creation of the Telamon database of the ancient Greek inscriptions from Bulgaria encoded in TEI XML. The work so far on the project is reported, the modifications to the existing services are enumerated and some future perspectives are discussed.
The paper presents the work on the Telamon and the Tituli projects which aim at creating online databases respectively of Greek and Latin epigraphic heritage from Bulgaria. The AIAX front-end service for the indexing and visualisation of EpiDoc XML files is described, as well as collaborations with different Bulgarian museums.
In this paper, the history, purpose and importance of the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Greek Epigraphy Project are discussed.
The paper presents the corpus of the Inscriptions of Georgia, a result of a PhD research project at the Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. The database, built using the EpiDoc Front-End Services (EFES) platform, combines the EpiDoc editions of hundreds of inscriptions unearthed in Georgia, and published in print during the 18th-20th centuries. The paper outlines the main issues addressed during the creation of the database and the encoding of the inscriptions. It illustrates the core features of the corpus, with an emphasis on the advantages of the digital edition of the epigraphic monuments with the TEI-EpiDoc standard and the EFES platform.
Up till recently, the arabic inscriptions from the whole Islamic world, from the beginning of islam until 800 h., were collected in the famous Répertoire Chronologique d'Épigraphie Arabe (RCEA), edited by the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale in Cairo. Eighteen volumes have been published collecting more than 7000 inscriptions, all in arabic. The development of new technologies gives new possibilities for describing inscriptions, and especially for a rapid recovery of words, dates etc. between thousands and thousands of inscriptions. That is the reason why the concept of the old project was updated and a new project, called Thesaurus d'Épigraphie Islamique, was developed and is described in this article. The goal is now to collect not only inscriptions in arabic but also in persian and turkish, up till the year 1000 h. By looking at this new system adapted to the possibilities given by computer, one can appreciate the rich and varied aspects of Islamic epigraphy in the Middle Ages.
In 2001, Rutgers University Libraries (RUL) accepted a substantial donation of Roman Republican coins. The work to catalog, house, digitize, describe, and present this collection online provided unique challenges for the institution. Coins are often seen as museum objects; however, they can serve pedagogical purposes within libraries. In the quest to innovate, RUL digitized coins from seven angles to provide a 180-degree view of coins. However, this strategy had its drawbacks; it had to be reassessed as the project continued. RUCore, RUL’s digital repository, uses Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS). Accordingly, it was necessary to adapt numismatic description to bibliographic metadata standards.With generous funding from the Loeb Foundation, the resulting digital collection of 1200 coins was added to RUCore from 2012 to 2018. Rutgers’s Badian Roman Coins Collection serves as an exemplar of numismatics in a library environment that is freely available to all on the Web.
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