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=== Availablility ===
==Available==


* http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/sonst/adw/edh/index.html
* http://edh-www.adw.uni-heidelberg.de/


* Director: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Géza Alföldy
==Director==


=== Concept ===
* Christian Witschel


(from the EDH web-site)
==Description==


The aim of the project Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH) is to integrate Latin inscriptions from all parts of the Roman Empire into an extensive database. Since 2004 Greek inscriptions from the same chronological timespan are also being entered. It consists of three databases the Epigraphic database, the Epigraphic Bibliography and the Photographic Database. It exists at an international level alongside other database projects, which serve as a working tool for the swift and simple collection, viewing, supplementing and interdisciplinary analysis of epigraphic material. Furthermore it is possible to the create KWIC indices and to combine the stored information as freely as possible
The Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (EDH) is a searchable resource that provides texts, bibliographic citations, descriptive data and images for Latin and Greek inscriptions of the Roman Empire. EDH forms an essential component of the [[Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (EAGLE)]], functioning as the primary repository for inscriptions from the Roman provinces. It is directed by Christian Witschel, who took over in 2007 from the project’s founder, Géza Alföldy. Witschel is assisted by a research team at Heidelberg, and a growing number of external collaborators worldwide. The project was founded in 1986, and put its first data online in 1997.


At present, the Epigraphic database contains over 36.000 inscriptions and thus includes most of the especially noteworthy inscriptions published outside the main editions. In contrast to similar projects, the database presents revised and often corrected versions. Control of this sort is above all necessary in the case of earlier publications, which do not fulfill the standards of modern textual editorial practice. Moreover, the database is not confined to the mere texts, but links them to all the available bibliographical data and information on the inscriptions proper and on the monuments or objects they are inscribed upon. Time-consuming though it is, by means of this method of working the database meets high scholarly demands.
As of December 2019, EDH contained texts for over 80,000 inscriptions from 30,000 findspots, together with full records for over 16,000 bibliographic items and over 38,000 images. Many of the texts in EDH are revised or corrected from previous print publications on the basis of autopsy, or with reference to a squeeze or photograph. An increasing number of print-oriented epigraphic projects are simultaneously providing EDH with electronic copies of newly edited inscriptions that will appear in their publications. The EDH site is available in both German and English, and the interface permits both Simple and Advanced Search, which enables users to discover content by searching a combination of the many descriptive, bibliographic and full-text fields in the three databases that house the project’s data: the Epigraphic Text Database, the Epigraphic Bibliography and the Photographic Database.
 
EDH hosts an Open Data Repository in which it makes available several datasets under a CC BY-SA 4.0 licence, including the inscriptions and their metadata in EpiDoc XML, photo metadata in CIDOC-CRM XML, bibliography in BibTeX, inscriptions including prosopography in RDF, and geographical information in GeoJSON. Its images are made available via an IIIF API. Canonical URLs have been established for all inscriptions, images, bibliographical and geographical records. EDH also provides a detailed description of EDH's databases and an overview of options for data reuse in Frank Grieshaber's article [https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00026599 ''Epigraphic Database Heidelberg - Data Reuse Options''].
 
 
===See also===
 
* [[Epigraphy.info]]
* [[EAGLE]]


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Revision as of 15:46, 7 December 2019

Available

Director

  • Christian Witschel

Description

The Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (EDH) is a searchable resource that provides texts, bibliographic citations, descriptive data and images for Latin and Greek inscriptions of the Roman Empire. EDH forms an essential component of the Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (EAGLE), functioning as the primary repository for inscriptions from the Roman provinces. It is directed by Christian Witschel, who took over in 2007 from the project’s founder, Géza Alföldy. Witschel is assisted by a research team at Heidelberg, and a growing number of external collaborators worldwide. The project was founded in 1986, and put its first data online in 1997.

As of December 2019, EDH contained texts for over 80,000 inscriptions from 30,000 findspots, together with full records for over 16,000 bibliographic items and over 38,000 images. Many of the texts in EDH are revised or corrected from previous print publications on the basis of autopsy, or with reference to a squeeze or photograph. An increasing number of print-oriented epigraphic projects are simultaneously providing EDH with electronic copies of newly edited inscriptions that will appear in their publications. The EDH site is available in both German and English, and the interface permits both Simple and Advanced Search, which enables users to discover content by searching a combination of the many descriptive, bibliographic and full-text fields in the three databases that house the project’s data: the Epigraphic Text Database, the Epigraphic Bibliography and the Photographic Database.

EDH hosts an Open Data Repository in which it makes available several datasets under a CC BY-SA 4.0 licence, including the inscriptions and their metadata in EpiDoc XML, photo metadata in CIDOC-CRM XML, bibliography in BibTeX, inscriptions including prosopography in RDF, and geographical information in GeoJSON. Its images are made available via an IIIF API. Canonical URLs have been established for all inscriptions, images, bibliographical and geographical records. EDH also provides a detailed description of EDH's databases and an overview of options for data reuse in Frank Grieshaber's article Epigraphic Database Heidelberg - Data Reuse Options.


See also