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=== Available ===
==Available==


* http://www.brown.edu/iip
* https://library.brown.edu/iip/index/
* https://www.inscriptionsisraelpalestine.org/ (newer website)


=== Description ===
==Description==
The project director is Michael Satlow at Brown University.


The Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine (hereafter Inscriptions) project was officially launched by Michael Satlow in 1996. This initial prototype was produced under the auspices of, and with generous support from, the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at the University of Virginia. The primary goal of this prototype was to develop a data architecture (the DTD, or "Document Type Definition") that would allow for encoding inscriptions in a way that would be maximally useful for scholarly and pedagogical purposes. Although modified in the years since, our present DTD is largely an outgrowth of this early one. The prototype encoded the inscriptions in English translation only from the catacombs of Bet She'arim, a late antique Jewish burial site located not far from modern day Haifa. At that time, it was technically too challenging to encode the Greek and Hebrew texts, as Unicode was just an emerging standard that had few tools available for its entry or display. This project also experimented with a geographical interface that would allow users to better view inscriptions within their wider context.
From the website (accessed 2015-12-02):
 
:The Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine project seeks to collect and make accessible over the Web all of the previously published inscriptions (and their English translations) of Israel/Palestine from the Persian period through the Islamic conquest (ca. 500 BCE - 640 CE). There are about 15,000 of these inscriptions, written primarily in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin, by Jews, Christians, Greeks, and Romans. They range from imperial declarations on monumental architecture to notices of donations in synagogues to humble names scratched on ossuaries, and include everything in between. There are approximately 1,500 inscriptions currently in the database, with more added regularly.
Satlow moved to Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1999, and began work on the next phase of the project with the help of the Indiana University Digital Library Project. From 1999-2002, the DTD was converted into XML and, with technological advances in the application of Unicode, it became increasingly possible to encode and search Greek and Hebrew texts. During these years we also worked on user interfaces and ways of better integrating geographical data into the project. Many of these contributions were not implemented before Satlow left IU in 2002 to move to Brown University, but the skeleton of a second prototype can be seen at http://letrs.indiana.edu:9090/inscript/index.html.
 
The present project builds on these earlier prototypes but also goes far beyond them. Reconstituted as a collaborative project and now under the auspices of the Scholarly Technology Group at Brown University, Inscriptions now has a functioning permanent site.


==Presentations==
*Michael Satlow and Elli Mylonas (2021), "Digital Epigraphic Corpora: the example of the inscriptions from Israel and Palestine", ''SunoikisisDC '' . [Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ntk9m4o6gc]
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Latest revision as of 14:11, 19 April 2023

Available

Description

The project director is Michael Satlow at Brown University.

From the website (accessed 2015-12-02):

The Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine project seeks to collect and make accessible over the Web all of the previously published inscriptions (and their English translations) of Israel/Palestine from the Persian period through the Islamic conquest (ca. 500 BCE - 640 CE). There are about 15,000 of these inscriptions, written primarily in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin, by Jews, Christians, Greeks, and Romans. They range from imperial declarations on monumental architecture to notices of donations in synagogues to humble names scratched on ossuaries, and include everything in between. There are approximately 1,500 inscriptions currently in the database, with more added regularly.

Presentations

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