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 at the British School at Rome for April 2009. Watch this space for further news.
• An EpiDoc/Son of Suda Online workshop is planned at Duke University, October 2009
• An EpiDoc/Son of Suda Online workshop is planned at the King's College London, April 2010
• An EpiDoc/Son of Suda Online workshop is planned at Duke University, June 2010 as part of the Summer Institute of Papyrology

Programme

The programme of the July 2008 Workshop is duplicated here for reference. All training materials are freely downloadable.

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 (see EpiDoc Resources; EpiDoc Projects)
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