Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy: From Practice to Discipline

Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy: From Practice to Discipline 
De Santis, Annamaria / Rossi, Irene

ISBN: 978-3-11-060720
 


Aims and Scope

Although a relevant number of projects digitizing inscriptions are under development or have been recently accomplished, Digital Epigraphy is not yet considered to be a proper discipline and there are still no regular occasions to meet and discuss. By collecting contributions on nineteen projects – very diversified for geographic and chronological context, for script and language, and for typology of digital output – this volume intends to point out the methodological issues which are specific to the application of information technologies to epigraphy. 
The first part of the volume is focused on data modelling and encoding, which are conditioned by the specific features of different scripts and languages, and deeply influence the possibility to perform searches on texts and the approach to the lexicographic study of such under-resourced languages. The second part of the volume is dedicated to the initiatives aimed at fostering aggregation, dissemination and the reuse of epigraphic materials, and to discuss issues of interoperability. 
The common theme of the volume is the relationship between the compliance with the theoretic tools and the methodologies developed by each different tradition of studies, and, on the other side, the necessity of adopting a common framework in order to produce commensurable and shareable results. The final question is whether the computational approach is changing the way epigraphy is studied, to the extent of renovating the discipline on the basis of new, unexplored questions.

Saturday, March 30, 2019

Mummy Label Database (MLD)

Mummy Label Database (MLD)













The Mummy Label Database (MLD) is a joint project of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), and the Universidad Complutense (Madrid). It was established in 2007, when Sofía Torallas Tovar (University of Chicago) and François Gaudard (University of Chicago) decided to join efforts to study mummy labels, a source material that requires linguistic expertise in both Greek and Demotic, among other things. They were soon joined by Raquel Martín Hernández (Universidad Complutense) and Klaas A. Worp (Leiden University), who has extensive experience in the edition of Greek mummy labels. The team grew, adding Alberto Nodar (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), with remarkable skills in papyrology-related databases, and Amalia Zomeño (CCHS-CSIC, Madrid), who specializes in the study of the ancient Arabic civilization, providing a comparative vision into a later period. Additional members also joined the team: María Jesús Albarrán (CCHS-CSIC, Madrid), Irene Pajón (Universidad de Sevilla), Alba de Frutos García (CCHS-CSIC, Madrid), Marina Escolano Poveda (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore), and Sergio Carro Martín (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), who is the team’s research assistant since 2009.

Sphragis: A Bibliography for Aegean Glyptic

Sphragis: A Bibliography for Aegean Glyptic

Bibliography I: from the late 4th c. BCE (Theophrastos) to 1990 CE (CMS Beiheft 4, A Bibliography for Aegean Glyptic in the Bronze Age, by John G. Younger. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag 1991).
Bibliography II: from 1990 CE - present
Bibliography III. Volumes of the CMS
 

Friday, March 29, 2019

LSJLogeion

LSJLogeion
This is the heavily edited local Chicago version of the Perseus LSJ; all Greek converted to Unicode; many entries split or merged. If using these files, please credit Perseus Tufts and Helma Dik/Logeion, and please report issues.

LSJ Lexicon (CEX, Markdown)

LSJ Lexicon (CEX, Markdown)
This repository holds an edition of the LSJ Lexicon formatted as a CEX file, with the lexicon's entries formatted lightly in Markdown.
The original digitization of the public domain text of the LSJ is courtesy of the Perseus Digital Library: Text provided by Perseus Digital Library, with funding from The National Endowment for the Humanities. Original version available for viewing and download at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/.
The transformation of the Perseus text to an XML edition with composed Unicode was done by Giuseppe Celano. The files here are a further transformation of Celano's work.
License CC 3.0 BY-NC-SA.

Contents

  • lsj.cex A Cite Collection of the entries in the LSJ, with accompanying documentation of a discoverable text property extension identifying the entry property as a having a primtive type String and an extended type Markdown. URNs for the LSJ collection are, e.g. urn:cts:hmt:lsj.markdown:n51.
  • lsj.index A searchable index as tabulated lines, with # as the field delimiter. The fields are:
    1. The ID (object-selector) of an entry
    2. The entry's key (lemma) in Unicode, normalized to remove diacritical marks
    3. The entry's key (lemma) in Beta Code, normalized to remove diacritical marks
    4. A listing of all Greek words in the entry, in Beta Code without accents
  • files A directory of individual CEX fragments for each alphabetic division of the LSJ.

Corrections

Please submit corrections as issues in GitHub or (ideally) in the form of pull-requests.

Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary (CEX, Markdown)

Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary (CEX, Markdown)
This repository holds an edition of the Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary formatted as a CEX file, with the lexicon's entries formatted lightly in Markdown.
The original digitization of the public domain text of the LSJ is courtesy of the Perseus Digital Library: Text provided by Perseus Digital Library, with funding from The National Endowment for the Humanities. Original version available for viewing and download at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/.
License CC 3.0 BY-NC-SA.

Contents

  • ls.cex A Cite Collection of the entries in the dictionaryj, with accompanying documentation of a discoverable text property extension identifying the entry property as a having a primtive type String and an extended type Markdown. URNs for the LSJ collection are, e.g. urn:cts:hmt:lsj.markdown:n51.
  • lsj.index A searchable index as tabulated lines, with # as the field delimiter. The fields are:
    1. The ID (object-selector) of an entry
    2. The lemma

Corrections

Please submit corrections as issues in GitHub or (ideally) in the form of pull-requests.

Thursday, March 28, 2019

Sembase: a database project for the study of Semitic roots

 [First posted in AWOL 2 March 2013, updated 28 March 2019]

Sembase: a database project for the study of Semitic roots
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In today's world, even people in the same general discipline, but specialized in different areas, may not understand each other's work. Nonlinguists working on Middle East topics, or linguists devoting their time to the study of other language families, may not have been exposed to the Semitic family of languages (or Semitic subfamily of Afro-Asiatic). The Semitic languages all share certain distinctive characteristics. This project is especially dependent on one of them, the consonantal root system. This very brief introduction is intended to enable the nonspecialist to more fully understand Sembase...
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Open Access Journal: Heritage Science

Heritage Science
ISSN: 2050-7445
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Heritage Science is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research covering:
  • Understanding of the manufacturing processes, provenances, and environmental contexts of material types, objects, and buildings, of cultural significance including their historical significance.
  • Understanding and prediction of physico-chemical and biological degradation processes of cultural artefacts, including climate change, and predictive heritage studies.
  • Development and application of analytical and imaging methods or equipments for non-invasive, non-destructive or portable analysis of artwork and objects of cultural significance to identify component materials, degradation products and deterioration markers.
  • Development and application of invasive and destructive methods for understanding the provenance of objects of cultural significance.
  • Development and critical assessment of treatment materials and methods for artwork and objects of cultural significance.
  • Development and application of statistical methods and algorithms for data analysis to further understanding of culturally significant objects.
  • Publication of reference and corpus datasets as supplementary information to the statistical and analytical studies above.
  • Description of novel technologies that can assist in the understanding of cultural heritage.
Where research reflects current usage of and advances in analytical techniques, it is anticipated that authors will place their work in the context of cultural and conservation studies. The conclusions should clarify the importance of the findings to heritage science, to be clear that the advance is not merely to record a number of measurements.
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