UniBo Digital Lab
Laboratorio Digitale per le Fonti Classiche
Master in History and Oriental Studies, University of Bologna, Department of History and Cultures
Academic Year 2021/22, 03.02.2022-04.03.2022
Teachers: Alice Bencivenni, Marta Fogagnolo, Irene Vagionakis
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the laboratory, students are able to collect and organize complex information relating to classical textual sources in a coherent way, can apply methods of critical analysis, of reconstruction and preservation of the texts. Students are able to identify a problem relevant to the research on classical textual sources and they can identify and properly use the convenient tools, including digital ones, to tackle it.
Programme
Thursday, 03 February
General Introduction to semantic encoding and EpiDoc
Introduction to Oxygen XML Editor and EFES (part 1)
Friday, 04 February
Introduction to Oxygen XML Editor and EFES (part 2)
Thursday, 10 February
Introduction to EpiDoc Guidelines
The structure of an EpiDoc edition (template) and EpiDoc Structure Cheatsheet (Structure Cheatsheet)
Examples from Text encoding (part 1): Complex Lacunae, Editorial Corrections
Friday, 11 February (morning)
EpiDoc Leiden Cheatsheet (EpiDoc Leiden Cheatsheet) / QuickRef (Leiden and EpiDoc Quick Reference)
Examples from Text encoding (part 2): Abbreviations, Certainty and Precision, Fragments, Columns and Sections
Training
Friday, 11 February (afternoon)
ENCODE Project Seminar: Artificial Intelligence and Inscriptions – Opportunities and practicalities of Machine Learning for Epigraphy
Thursday, 17 February
Discussion and questions
Examples from Text encoding (part 3): Verse Inscriptions
Examples from Metadata encoding (part 1): Origin and Locations, Repository and Identifier
Thursday, 24 February
Examples from Metadata encoding (part 2): Origin date
Examples of Indexing: Words and Lemmatisation, Names and Persons, Places
Training
Friday, 25 February
Guest Speaker: Giuditta Mirizio: Papyri.info, Leiden+
Thursday, 03 March
Internal and External Authority lists
Friday, 04 March
Examples of projects based on EpiDoc (IGCyr, IRCyr, IRT, Cretan Institutional Inscriptions, CGRN)
How to customise indeces and facets in EFES: EFES Wiki
Training