US Epigraphy Project
| STG lead(s): |
Elli Mylonas, Carole Mah |
STG's role in the current phase of the project is to provide
technical advice and assistance in developing an XML/TEI
template in accordance with Epidoc guidelines, to convert
the 2,300 published inscriptions mounted at the project
website into XML, and implement a system that searches and
displays them. We are also performing an update and redesign of the
website.
The goal of the US Epigraphy project is to create an XML
publication of all Greek, Roman and Etruscan epigraphic
texts in American collections. Initially, the project will
focus on collecting metadata and images. Subsequently, it
will focus on entering the text and translation for each
inscription. John Bodel has been the director of the US
Epigraphy Project since 1995. The US Epigraphy project is a
member of the group developing the Epidoc DTD, a TEI
conformant DTD for encoding classical inscriptions. The project will also
develop some basic pedagogical tools to
exploit the instructional potential of the photographic
archive (e.g., to illustrate styles of writing, ligatures,
stonecutters' marks, erased, corrected, or supplemented
text, etc.).
| Principal Investigator(s) or Parent Project Lead(s): |
John Bodel
Classics, Brown University
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| Research domains: |
electronic publishing |
| STG involvement initiated: |
December 2003 |
| Status: | in progress |
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Funding support: |
STG Faculty Grant |
Record last modified: 13-Sep-2005
