Taking the work on the graphemic and morphemic analysis of the cuneiform texts of Ebla as a starting point, the paper reviews the ‘grammatical’ criteria that make digital coding not only more efficient and dynamic, but also intellectually more in tune with the goal of establishing an argument and unfolding a narrative. This throws light on aspects of software application on the one hand (such as the semantic web) and of the digital humanities on the other, ranging from textual to archaeological data.
The Tesserae Project offers a free online intertextual search tool for ancient Greek, Latin, and English. Tesserae has in the past allowed for a pairwise searching of literary texts in these languages for exact word or lemma similarities. This paper describes two new types of search now offered by Tesserae, by meaning (semantic search) and by sound.
At present, the issue of digital epigraphy seems limited to the digitalization of epigraphs by means of the creation of databases. Digital epigraphy, unlike the digital palaeography that in the last few years has known a potential development that is likely to produce very interesting results, still does not have its own defined search line, at least at current research.
The paper reviews the history of studying multilingual epigraphy in Georgia. Different research stages of Georgian epigraphy, including electronic editions prepared by the ISU Institute of Linguistic Studies, have been considered.
<p><span style="text-align: justify;">EAGLE (Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigrahy) was born in 2003 as a federation of four epigraphic digital archives (Epigraphic Database Bari-EDB, Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg-EDH, Epigraphic Database Roma-EDR, and Hispania Epigraphica Online). In 2013 it became a more complex and comprehensive European project, co-funded by the European Commission for 36 months, in the framework of the ICT-PSP program, whose aim is to aggregate epigraphic contents provided by different databases (see the complete list on the website www.eagle-network.eu) and make them searchable through a single portal. These contents, harmonized and "disambiguated" in order to give a permanent identifier to records coming from different archives but related to a single object, are then provided to Europeana, the portal of European cultural heritage, to make them accessible not only to scholars, but also to the broad public (that's why the acronym is now expanded Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy).</span><br></p>
The contribution, which is part of the "Virtual Museum of Archaeological Computing" (a joint initiative of the CNR-ISMA and the Accademia dei Lincei, ed. by P. Moscati) presents the history, the objective and the features of the Digital Archive for the study of pre-Islamic Arabian inscriptions (http://dasi.humnet.unipi.it/, now http://dasi.cnr.it/). The conceptual model of the database, the module for XML annotation of the texts, the search tools offered in the front end site of the archive, and the efforts towards the alignment to standards and thesauri and towards interoperability are described.
The proposed paper documents Romans 1by1, a population database working on Roman-era inscriptions. The database architecture is built for accommodating all categories of people attested epigraphically. Besides the structure, we will present the difficulties faced and questions raised when expanding and diversifying the metadata, as well as the solutions we opted for and our motivation(s) in doing so. The last section of the presentation will focus on some applications of the database. The most obvious ones, which were the focus of our interest so far as well, refer to prosopographical reconstructions (linking people which have not been linked/identified as the same person throughout more inscriptions and reconstructing relatively fluent life courses) and network analyses.