Events

Past Lecture:

The Computers and the Humanities Users Group, the University Library and the Department of the Classics
present

Why markup texts?

Charlotte Roueché
King's College London

 

12:30, Monday, July 13
169 Angell St., Main Conference Room

 

Charlotte Roueché trained as a classicist (in Cambridge) and a Byzantinist (in Paris). She teaches Classical and Byzantine Greek language, culture and history at King’s College London. For many years she has worked on Greek inscriptions on stone excavated at sites in Turkey – particularly Aphrodisias (working with the New York University excavation, http://www.nyu.edu/projects/aphrodisias) and Ephesus (working with the Austrian Archaeological Institute). The need to publish an adequately rich account of this important material led her to explore and develop web publication: this was made possible by a partnership with Tom Elliott, formerly of UNC Chapel Hill, and now of ISAW, New York. Together they received funding from the Leverhulme Trust and the AHRC, which has enabled her two first publications in TEI-compliant XML, to be found at http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk. She has been a leader in promoting digital epigraphy, and helping along the development of Epidoc, the TEI flavor for marking up inscriptions.

 

Past Lecture:

The Computers and the Humanities Users Group, Computing and Information Services, and The Center of Digital Epigraphy
present

Interoperability between Epigraphic and Papyrological Databases The Epidoc Scenario

Dr. Gabriel Bodard
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King's College London

 

12:30, Thursday, May 22
169 Angell St., Main Conference Room

 

Crosswalking--the automated mapping of metadata from one schema to another--has emerged as a crucial tool in the digital landscape, and is particularly useful for integrating data from multiple sources or projects. This talk will focus on the use of crosswalks in epigraphical and papyrological research development. Within these domains, a number of corpora have been developed using different technologies and data structures, and driven by different user needs. There are collections that use the Epidoc XML schema, which is based on TEI, collections like the Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy that are served from SQL databases, and older projects which use specialized information structures. Dr. Gabriel Bodard will present some of the strategies that he and his colleagues, Tom Elliot and Hugh Cayless, have devised to perform such transforms. He will then describe in more detail the Integrating Digital Papyrology project, whose purpose is to dynamically transform and integrate the Duke Databank and Heidelberg Gesamtverzeichnis collections into a single EpiDoc collection, and some of the technical and theoretical lessons learned from this process.