Tradition and progress. The Roman World seen through Inscriptions in the Digital Age (original) (raw)
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Epigraphy.info has become an international open community pursuing a collaborative environment for digital epigraphy, which facilitates scholarly communication and interaction. It intends not to replace existing digital resources, but rather to serve as "a landing point for digital tools, practices and methodologies for managing collections of inscriptions". 1 During the first workshop (March 21-23, 2018) 2 , an international group of scholars gathered in Heidelberg to discuss the concept of Epigraphy.info. Participants focused on four major topic areas: participating people/institutions, structure, finances, and tasks. A steering committee and organizing committee were formed to coordinate next steps. A second workshop followed in Zadar (December 14th-16th, 2018) 3 where the main outcome was the draft of a mission statement, and (based on the results of the breakout sessions) a series of goals and tasks to be discussed during the next workshop. The third workshop, which is the subject of this report, took place in Vienna (May 30-June 1, 2019). Its main outcome has been the approval of the mission statement and the forming of working groups with responsible persons identified to coordinate the tasks outlined after the breakout sessions and formalized during the final plenary session. Participants 4 Thirty-seven scholars from thirteen countries personally attended the 3rd Epigraphy.info workshop in Vienna, while eighteen more indicated that they were not able to come, but 1 Mission statement on the homepage of the website: http://epigraphy.info 2 F. Feraudi-Gruénais / F.
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Corpora of inscriptions are fundamental collections of the epigraphic material, and they display in the best manner of their times all that was thought to be important about every single written content. From a modern point of view, the perception of inscriptions is, besides the pure text, very much enlarged by its context, in our sense the archaeological, topographical or architectural context being the position in the specific situation, where the inscription was written and subsequently meant to be read (or simply to be). In the last years, with the ongoing digitalisation of scientific approaches, the collections of epigraphic material could benefit from this development as well, adding specific information about the physical position and the topographical context to the inscriptions. As a case study, in this paper we would like to present the inscriptions of the catacomb of Domitilla, at Rome, and the benefits that one can have by considering not only the texts but also using the topographical context for their interpretation. On the one hand, the catacomb itself was recently documented with a 3D-laserscanner, while on the other hand all inscriptions still in situ were stored in the EDB. Our approach is now to combine the 3D data with the epigraphic data base and to create interactive catacomb plans, in order to better understand the topographical and chronological developments and also to re-contextualise the epigraphic remains in their original placement. Displayed in this way, the inscriptions offer their entire value as epigraphic monuments more clearly.
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The discipline of Epigraphy has been rapidly transformed in the last decade. This huge effort of digitisation has given place to a number of online databases that store mainly texts in Latin and Greek; but texts written in Palaeo-European languages and writings have not been yet, in my view, digitally treated and stored in a proper, satisfactory way, according to the FAIR Data Principles. Although lot of work has been done in this direction, an online publication of texts written in these ancient European languages has not been not carried out, since what has been done is not Findable (it lacks of URIs), Accessible (it is only readable by people; not by machines), Interoperable, or Reusable. In such a fragmentary corpus it becomes vital to collect every textual and extratextual information. However, the efforts invested in digitising Palaeo-European epigraphy latterly have been remarkable: Hesperia, LexLep, TIR, AELAW, and RIIG, among others, are some examples of the databases that currently playing an important role in the decipherment and better understanding of some of the languages and writings that were spoken in Europe before the Roman settlement.
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Epigraphy in the Digital Age, 2021
The discipline of Epigraphy has been rapidly transformed in the last decade. This huge effort of digitisation has given place to a number of online databases that store mainly texts in Latin and Greek; but texts written in Palaeo-European languages and writings have not been yet, in my view, digitally treated and stored in a proper, satisfactory way, according to the FAIR Data Principles. Although lot of work has been done in this direction, an online publication of texts written in these ancient European languages has not been not carried out, since what has been done is not Findable (it lacks of URIs), Accessible (it is only readable by people; not by machines), Interoperable, or Reusable. In such a fragmentary corpus it becomes vital to collect every textual and extratextual information. However, the efforts invested in digitising Palaeo-European epigraphy latterly have been remarkable: Hesperia, LexLep, TIR, AELAW, and RIIG, among others, are some examples of the databases that currently playing an important role in the decipherment and better understanding of some of the languages and writings that were spoken in Europe before the Roman settlement.
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Velázquez Soriani, I., Espinosa Espinosa, D. (Eds.) Epigraphy in the Digital Age Opportunities and Challenges in the Recording, Analysis and Dissemination of Inscriptions. Oxford: Archeopress, 2021
Epigraphy in the Digital Age. Opportunities and Challenges in the Recording, Analysis and Dissemination of Inscriptions has been funded within the research projects "Archivo virtual para las investigaciones sobre patrimonios epigráficos medievales de la Comunidad de Madrid (AVIPES-CM)" (H2019/HUM-5742, Comunidad de Madrid-Fondo Social Europeo) and "Epigraphica 3.0: Hacia la creación y diseño de un corpus digital de inscripciones latinas de la provincia de Ourense" (ED481D2017/013, Xunta de Galicia). Also, this book benefited from the funding provided by the research project "Corpus de textos e inscripciones hispano-latinos sobre arquitectura religiosa y civil altomedieval (CITHARA)" (PR87/19-22659, Complutense University of Madrid-Banco Santander) and the research group "Ciudades Romanas (GICIUR)" (Ref. no. 930692)" (Complutense University of Madrid).