DASI - Digital Archive for the study of pre-Islamic Arabian inscriptions A tool for the study of the cultures and languages of pre-Islamic Arabia (original) (raw)

Abstract

The ERC five-year project "DASI – Digital Archive for the study of pre-Islamic Arabian inscriptions" (University of Pisa-Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) aims at digitizing the whole corpus of ancient Arabian inscriptions. DASI archive of inscriptions, which counts at present nearly 6500 published text, consists of three main components: a relational database, a data entry and a front end. The features of these, described in the paper, make DASI a performing tool not only for cataloguing and publishing epigraphs but also for teaching the culture and the languages of pre-Islamic Arabia. These tools are used in the course of Ancient South Arabian Epigraphy at the University of Pisa. The students are guided in a thorough analysis of an inscription by means of the data entry. Special attention is paid to the text, where a linguistic analysis can be performed by means of grammatical tags. The XML textual editor integrated into the data entry is easy-to-use, as it allows to obtain a text encoded according to the EpiDoc standard without the user being forced to learn the XML syntax.

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