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Is still Arabia at the margins of digital Epigraphy? Challenges in the digitization of the pre-Islamic inscriptions in the project DASI | H-SeTIS Bibliography

Is still Arabia at the margins of digital Epigraphy? Challenges in the digitization of the pre-Islamic inscriptions in the project DASI

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Authors/contributors
Title
Is still Arabia at the margins of digital Epigraphy? Challenges in the digitization of the pre-Islamic inscriptions in the project DASI
Abstract
The ERC-Advanced Grant project DASI has contributed to define and foster best practices in the digitization of pre-Islamic inscriptions Arabian inscriptions. As one of the early attempts at digitizing the epigraphic heritage related to Semitic languages, it has been facing specific challenges in support description and text encoding. This contribute describes the solutions chosen to encode and represent different kinds of phenomena, such as phonemes typical of the Semitic languages, onomastics, textual portions, symbols and grammatical phenomena. Moreover a digital lexicon tool for under-resources languages, such as those attested in the epigraphic documentation of pre-Islamic Arabia, is illustrated.
Proceedings Title
Off the Beaten Track. Epigraphy at the Borders. Proceedings of the VI EAGLE International Meeting (24-25 September 2015, Bari, Italy)
Conference Name
VI EAGLE International Meeting
Publisher
Archaeopress
Place
Oxford
Date
2016
Pages
46-59
ISBN
ISBN 978-1-78491-322-9; e-ISBN 978-1-78491-323-6
License
Open access
Citation
Avanzini, Alessandra, Annamaria De Santis, Daniele Marotta, and Irene Rossi. 2016. “Is Still Arabia at the Margins of Digital Epigraphy? Challenges in the Digitization of the Pre-Islamic Inscriptions in the Project DASI.” In Off the Beaten Track. Epigraphy at the Borders. Proceedings of the VI EAGLE International Meeting (24-25 September 2015, Bari, Italy), edited by Antonio E. Felle and Anita Rocco, 46–59. Oxford: Archaeopress. https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781784913229.