Il contributo fornisce una breve storia di EAGLE: nasce nel 2003 come Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, una federazione di banche dati che si riconoscono nello stesso modo di concepire l’epigrafia digitale; si evolve tra il 2013 e il 2016 come aggregatore e content provider di Europeana (Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy); dal 2020 accoglie EDF (Epigraphic Database Falsae), la prima banca dati dedicata al fenomeno della falsificazione epigrafica.

In questo lavoro vengono descritte le principali attività di sviluppo del progetto EpiCUM con particolare riferimento agli aspetti realizzativi e funzionali dei risultati conseguiti. EpiCUM si propone di presentare e rendere fruibile con un unico museo digitale tutto il corpus epigrafico del museo civico Castello Ursino di Catania, codificato in EpiDoc. Il progetto nasce dalla collaborazione tra l'Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione del CNR e il Comune di Catania, ha visto l’interesse del progetto I.Sicily ed il coinvolgimento del liceo artistico M.M. Lazzaro di Catania con le attività di alternanza scuola-lavoro. La prima fase del progetto è stata dedicata soprattutto alla ricognizione delle epigrafi e all'allestimento della mostra Voci di Pietra che propone una selezione di epigrafi secondo modalità di esposizione innovative attraverso l'uso intelligente della tecnologia e del digitale. Nella fase successiva ci si è concentrati sull'analisi e sulla codifica nel formato aperto EpiDoc di tutte le iscrizioni del museo civico e sulla realizzazione del museo digitale. Tutte le informazioni sulle epigrafi sono codificate in EpiDoc all’interno di file XML e sono facilmente accessibili attraverso le varie sezioni del museo digitale in cui vengono presentate in maniera semplice e intuitiva visualizzandole all’interno di schede epigrafiche. Le schede epigrafiche forniscono l’accesso ai file XML contenenti le codifiche EpiDoc. Le informazioni epigrafiche possono essere interrogate opportunamente attraverso una sezione del museo digitale dedicata alle ricerche. Con questa modalità di organizzazione delle informazioni epigrafiche nel museo digitale si rende fruibile, per diversi scopi, l’intero patrimonio epigrafico del museo civico catanese sia agli studiosi del settore, ma anche a tutte le altre tipologie di possibili utenti. Si osservi che al fine di facilitare la navigazione attraverso le informazioni epigrafiche, si è pensato di includere in maniera autonoma anche le informazioni riguardanti l'ambito religioso, le collezioni di provenienza e lo status di copia delle epigrafi, codificandole all’interno dei file XML attraverso uno specifico set di elementi di marcatura EpiDoc appositamente selezionati.

In this paper we describe the process of inclusion of etymological information in a knowledge base of interoperable Latin linguistic resources developed in the context of the LiLa: Linking Latin project. Interoperability is obtained by applying the Linked Open Data principles. Particularly, an extensive collection of Latin lemmas is used to link the (distributed) resources. For the etymology, we rely on the Ontolex-lemon ontology and the lemonEty extension to model the information, while the source data are taken from a recent etymological dictionary of Latin. As a result, the collection of lemmas LiLa is built around now includes 1,465 Proto-Italic and 1,393 Proto-Indo-European reconstructed forms that are used to explain the history of 1,400 Latin words. We discuss the motivation, methodology and modeling strategies of the work, as well as its possible applications and potential future developments.

This chapter reviews some of the historical developments in scientific illustration that influenced our modern-day approach to Egyptological epigraphy and discusses the idea of objectivity in scientific illustration. It then offers a brief assessment of the advantages of digital epigraphy over more traditional methods. A discussion follows regarding working on-screen with drawing layers, creating sun and shadow lines digitally, and reviewing the reasons to choose either raster images (bitmaps) or vectors—in the context of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator—to create facsimile line drawings of Egyptian scenes and inscriptions. It briefly summarizes the development of new devices that allow for digital epigraphy in the field and then takes the discussion one step further into 3D modeling and other forms of archaeological visualization, including the Giza Project at Harvard University. Concluding remarks touch on the sustainability of digital workflows, data management plans, and the challenges of keeping pace with new technologies.

This paper presents the structure of the LiLa Knowledge Base, i.e. a collection of multifarious linguistic resources for Latin described with the same vocabulary of knowledge description and interlinked according to the principles of the so-called Linked Data paradigm. Following its highly lexically based nature, the core of the LiLa Knowledge Base consists of a large collection of Latin lemmas, serving as the backbone to achieve interoperability between the resources, by linking all those entries in lexical resources and tokens in corpora that point to the same lemma. After detailing the architecture supporting LiLa, the paper particularly focusses on how we approach the challenges raised by harmonizing different strategies of lemmatization that can be found in linguistic resources for Latin. As an example of the process to connect a linguistic resource to LiLa, the inclusion in the Knowledge Base of a dependency treebank is described and evaluated.

An epigraph is a complex historical document, whose significance is fully acknowledged only if its textual features (script, language, content, etc.) are studied in combination with the contextual information (on the textual support and its provenance). This is the reason why digital epigraphy lies at the crossroads of different disciplines applying ITs to textual and material sources, such as digital philology, computational linguistics, and computational archaeology. The specific interests and methods of those disciplines have exerted an influence on digital epigraphy, which is apparent in the documentary vs statistical approaches applied over time to the electronic treatment of the (re)source ‘inscription’. The aim of the paper is to trace those trends in the application of qualitative vs quantitative methods in the history of studies of digital epigraphy, highlighting the main moments of change, until the most recent developments.

This article first focuses on the emergence of a scholarly discourse on periodization. That discourse includes historians' efforts to diversify criteria for individuating periods, and philosophers' analyses of periodization as a form of historiographical theorizing. Next the article turns to the dynamic interaction between scholarly periodization and the broader institutionalization of periodizations. This is followed by a brief review of arguments against periodization. The article ends with a look at how periodizations are treated in knowledge organization systems (KOS).

This article first focuses on the emergence of a scholarly discourse on periodization. That discourse includes historians' efforts to diversify criteria for individuating periods, and philosophers' analyses of periodization as a form of historiographical theorizing. Next the article turns to the dynamic interaction between scholarly periodization and the broader institutionalization of periodizations. This is followed by a brief review of arguments against periodization. The article ends with a look at how periodizations are treated in knowledge organization systems (KOS).