EpiDoc Workshops
EpiDoc Workshops have been run on several occasions over the past few years, with the intention of disseminating skills and experience and encouraging discussion on the topic of TEI markup for the encoding of epigraphic, papyrological, and other ancient texts.
Dates
Full, week-long Summer Schools have been run at:
- Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, July 2005
- CCH, KCL, May 2006
- CCH, KCL, June 2007
- Humanities Lab, IULM, Milan, June 16-20, 2008
- CCH, KCL, July 14-18, 2008
Shorter training events have taken place at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC in 2005; at the American Academy in Rome, October 2006; at the AIA/APA meeting in San Diego, January 2007.
Future events
An EpiDoc Laboratorio is planned in Rome for April 2009. Watch this space for further news.
Programme
The programme of the July 2008 Workshop is duplicated here for reference:
Monday July 14
| 10:30 | Welcome; EpiDoc philosophy and electronic publication (see The Epigrapher as Encoder; Publishing with XML) |
| 12:30 | lunch |
| 14:00 | Introduction to XML; bibliography and Oxygen exercises (see Introduction to XML; TEI Bibliographic Tagging) |
| 16:00 | ends (time for private study) |
Tuesday July 15
| 10:00 | help and feedback with exercises |
| 10:30 | EpiDoc XML and Leiden distinctions (see EpiDoc-Leiden Cheatsheet) |
| 12:30 | lunch |
| 14:00 | XML editing and transformation with Oxygen (see Div Types and Subtypes; Stylesheets and Rendering; Running XSLT in Oxygen) |
| 16:00 | ends (time for private study) |
Wednesday July 16
| 10:00 | help and feedback with exercises |
| 10:30 | Advanced EpiDoc: text corrections, fragments, and symbols (see Textual Corrections; Structure of the Text; Symbols and Marks) |
| 12:30 | lunch |
| 14:00 | Customizing the EpiDoc transformation stylesheets (see CSS Customization; XSLT Tutorial) |
| 16:00 | ends (time for private study) |
Thursday July 17
| 10:00 | help and feedback with exercises |
| 10:30 | EpiDoc guidelines, documentation, and community |
| 12:30 | lunch |
| 14:00 | Advanced EpiDoc: words, names, and metadata; EAGLE conformance (see Word Name and Place Markup; EpiDoc and EAGLE conformance) |
| 16:00 | ends (time for private study) |
Friday July 18
| 10:00 | help and feedback with exercises |
| 10:30 | More EpiDoc: verse, apparatus, request slot (see Verse in EpiDoc; Variant Readings and Apparatus Criticus) |
| 12:30 | lunch |
| 14:00 | Future developments; project workflow discussion (see EpiDoc Future Developments) |
| 16:30 | Digital Classicist Seminar: Ryan Baumann, 'Towards the Digital Squeeze: 3-D imaging of inscriptions and curse tablets' |
Contact
For more information on future EpiDoc training events, please enquire on the Markup list