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.

Materials

• News and materials site for this Laboratorio: http://eer.hypotheses.org/
• Processing instruction: <?oxygen RNGSchema="http://epidoc.googlecode.com/files/exp-epidoc.rng" type="xml"?>

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
• British School at Rome, September 21-25, 2009

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/Son of Suda Online workshop is planned at Duke University, May 2010
• An EpiDoc/Son of Suda Online workshop is planned at the King's College London, March 8-13, 2010
• An EpiDoc programme is proposed for the Digital Humanities Summer School, Dublin, June 30th-July 2nd, 2010
• An EpiDoc/Son of Suda Online workshop is planned at Duke University, July 2011 as part of the Summer Institute of Papyrology

Programme

The programme of the September 2009 Workshop is duplicated here for reference. All training materials are freely downloadable.

Monday September 21

10:00	Welcome; EpiDoc philosophy and electronic publication (see The Epigrapher as Encoder; Publishing with XML)
12:00	lunch
14:00	Introduction to XML; bibliography and Oxygen exercises (see Introduction to XML; TEI Bibliographic Tagging)
16:00	private study

Tuesday September 22

10:00	EpiDoc XML and Leiden distinctions (see EpiDoc-Leiden Cheatsheet; Example Markup of an Ephesan Inscription (Latin); Example Markup of an Olbian Inscription (Greek))
12:00	lunch
14:00	EpiDoc divisions and text structure (see Div Types and Subtypes; Structure of the Text)
16:00	private study

Wednesday September 23

10:00	Advanced EpiDoc: text corrections (see Textual Corrections; transformation with Oxygen (see Stylesheets and Rendering; Running XSLT in Oxygen)
12:00	lunch
14:00	EpiDoc guidelines, documentation, and community (see EpiDoc Resources; EpiDoc Projects); abbreviations and symbols (see Symbols and Marks)
16:00	private study

Thursday September 24

10:00	Certainty and precision (see Certainty and Precision)
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	private study

Friday September 24

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; Project Management Issues)
16:00	workshop ends

not used this time

• CSS Customization
• XSLT Tutorial

Contact

For more information on future EpiDoc training events, please enquire on the Markup list