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Temporary research fellow and collaborator at Scuola Normale Superiore (EU project CARARE, FIRB 2006, EU project CALLAS)
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Index of the volume: De Santis, Annamaria & Rossi, Irene (Eds), Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy. From Practice to Discipline, Warsaw-Berlin: De Gruyter Open, 2018. The index groups terms by: Ancient and Modern Regions and... more
Index of the volume: De Santis, Annamaria & Rossi, Irene (Eds), Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy. From Practice to Discipline, Warsaw-Berlin: De Gruyter Open, 2018. The index groups terms by: Ancient and Modern Regions and States; Languages and Scripts; Concepts of the epigraphic discipline and related digital practice.
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The present section contains selected terms from the Index of Concepts of the volume: De Santis, Annamaria & Rossi, Irene (Eds), Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy. From Practice to Discipline, Warsaw-Berlin: De Gruyter Open, 2018.... more
The present section contains selected terms from the Index of Concepts of the volume: De Santis, Annamaria & Rossi, Irene (Eds), Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy. From Practice to Discipline, Warsaw-Berlin: De Gruyter Open, 2018. Terms are mapped to the Library of Congress Subject Headings and the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus for their disambiguation and definition.
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This webliography includes a selection of the online resources that have been referenced within the papers of the book: De Santis, Annamaria & Rossi, Irene (Eds), Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy. From Practice to Discipline,... more
This webliography includes a selection of the online resources that have been referenced within the papers of the book: De Santis, Annamaria & Rossi, Irene (Eds), Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy. From Practice to Discipline, Warsaw-Berlin: De Gruyter Open, 2018.
Among them, only those useful to approach digital epigraphy, in content and method, have been selected. Each resource is described through the core elements of the Dublin Core Matadata Initiative. Therefore, especially indications on subjects, and chronological and geographic coverage are general, not domain-specific.
Among them, only those useful to approach digital epigraphy, in content and method, have been selected. Each resource is described through the core elements of the Dublin Core Matadata Initiative. Therefore, especially indications on subjects, and chronological and geographic coverage are general, not domain-specific.
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The paper describes the main challenges faced and the solutions adopted in the frame of the project DASI – Digital archive for the study of pre-Islamic Arabian inscriptions. In particular, it discusses the methodological and technological... more
The paper describes the main challenges faced and the solutions adopted in the frame of the project DASI – Digital archive for the study of pre-Islamic Arabian inscriptions. In particular, it discusses the methodological and technological issues that emerged during the conversion from the CSAI – Corpus of South Arabian inscriptions project (a domain-specific, text-based, digital edition conceived at the end of 1990s) to the wider DASI archive for the study of inscriptions in different languages and scripts of ancient Arabia. The paper devotes special attention to: the modelling of data and encoding (XML annotation vs database approach; the conceptual model for the valorisation of the material aspect of the epigraph; the textual encoding for critical editions); interoperability (pros and cons of compliance to standards; harmonization of metadata; openness; semantic interoperability); lexicography (tools for underresourced languages; translations), with a view to possibly fostering reasoning on best practices in the community of digital epigraphers beyond each specific cultural/linguistic domain.
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Introduction to the volume.
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Egyptology, Classics, Jewish Studies, Semitic languages, Assyriology, and 15 moreHittitology, Digital Curation, Ethiopian Studies, Phoenicians, Runic inscriptions, Ancient Near East, Text Encoding, Maya Epigraphy, Medieval Epigraphy, Digital epigraphy, Epigraphy, Semitic Philology, Pre-Islamic Arabia, Palaeohispanic languages, and Digital Lexicography
Authors: Avanzini A., De Santis A., Marotta D., Rossi I. DASI is an ERC-Advanced Grant project (n. 269774) aimed at digitizing the pre-Islamic inscriptions from Arabia and fostering best practices for the digitization of the epigraphic... more
Authors: Avanzini A., De Santis A., Marotta D., Rossi I.
DASI is an ERC-Advanced Grant project (n. 269774) aimed at digitizing the pre-Islamic inscriptions from Arabia and fostering best practices for the digitization of the epigraphic heritage related to Semitic languages. This paper describes the content model, the standards chosen, and exemplifies the vocabularies in view of a possible harmonization of data pertaining to the specific domain. The architecture of the system and the tools for encoding and retrieving textual content are also illustrated.
DASI is an ERC-Advanced Grant project (n. 269774) aimed at digitizing the pre-Islamic inscriptions from Arabia and fostering best practices for the digitization of the epigraphic heritage related to Semitic languages. This paper describes the content model, the standards chosen, and exemplifies the vocabularies in view of a possible harmonization of data pertaining to the specific domain. The architecture of the system and the tools for encoding and retrieving textual content are also illustrated.
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The ERC-Advanced Grant project DASI has contributed to define and foster best practices in the digitization of pre-Islamic Arabian inscriptions. As one of the early attempts at digitizing the epigraphic heritage related to Semitic... more
The ERC-Advanced Grant project DASI has contributed to define and foster best practices in the digitization of pre-Islamic Arabian inscriptions. As one of the early attempts at digitizing the epigraphic heritage related to Semitic languages, it has been facing specific challenges. This contribute focuses on challenges and solutions chosen to describe epigraphs and encode and represent their texts, according to standards. Moreover, a digital lexicon tool for linguistic study of under-resources languages is illustrated.
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CARARE is a best practice network funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme. It is aimed at establishing best practices and an aggregation service for making digital content for Europe's unique archaeological monuments and historic... more
CARARE is a best practice network funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme. It is aimed at establishing best practices and an aggregation service for making digital content for Europe's unique archaeological monuments and historic sites interoperable with Europeana. CARARE is particularly focused on recommendations for metadata schemas dedicated to archaeological and architectural heritage and on solutions for the publication of 3D and Virtual Reality content.
This paper illustrates the CARARE Project and the contribute which the Scuola Normale Superiore is giving to this Project, for the publication of 2D and 3D representations of Pompeii monuments through Europeana.
This paper illustrates the CARARE Project and the contribute which the Scuola Normale Superiore is giving to this Project, for the publication of 2D and 3D representations of Pompeii monuments through Europeana.
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CARARE is a best practice network funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme. It is aimed at establishing a best practice network of heritage agencies, archaeological organisations and research institutions to establish an aggregation... more
CARARE is a best practice network funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme. It is aimed at establishing a best practice network of heritage agencies, archaeological organisations and research institutions to establish an aggregation service for Europeana for archaeological and architectural digital content, including images, texts and 3D objects. CARARE is particularly focused on recommendations for metadata schemas dedicated to archaeological and architectural heritage and on solutions for the publication of 3D and Virtual Reality content. This paper describes the recommendations which have been made by the project for publishing 3D objects online in easily accessible formats such as 3D PDF with the metadata necessary for discovery in Europeana. It is illustrated by the contribution of the Scuola Normale Superiore and its work in preparing 3D representations of Pompeii monuments for publication through Europeana.
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Although a relevant number of projects digitizing inscriptions are under development or have been recently accomplished, Digital Epigraphy is not yet considered to be a proper discipline. Digital epigraphists train on the field, create... more
Although a relevant number of projects digitizing inscriptions are under development or have been recently accomplished, Digital Epigraphy is not yet considered to be a proper discipline. Digital epigraphists train on the field, create networks, but and there are still no regular occasions to meet and discuss. By collecting contributions on nineteen projects – very diversified for geographic and chronological context, for script and language, and for typology of digital output – this volume intends to point out the methodological issues which are specific to the application of information technologies to epigraphy.
The first part of the volume is focused on data modelling and encoding, which are conditioned by the specific features of different scripts and languages, and deeply influence the possibility to perform searches on texts, and the approach to the lexicographic study of such under-resourced languages. The second part of the volume is dedicated to the initiatives aimed at fostering aggregation, dissemination and the reuse of epigraphic materials, and to discuss issues of interoperability. The common theme of the volume is the relationship between the compliance with the theoretic tools and the methodologies developed by each different tradition of studies, and, on the other side, the necessity of adopting a common framework in order to produce commensurable and shareable results. The final question is whether the computational approach is changing the way epigraphy is studied, to the extent of renovating the discipline on the basis of new, unexplored questions.
The first part of the volume is focused on data modelling and encoding, which are conditioned by the specific features of different scripts and languages, and deeply influence the possibility to perform searches on texts, and the approach to the lexicographic study of such under-resourced languages. The second part of the volume is dedicated to the initiatives aimed at fostering aggregation, dissemination and the reuse of epigraphic materials, and to discuss issues of interoperability. The common theme of the volume is the relationship between the compliance with the theoretic tools and the methodologies developed by each different tradition of studies, and, on the other side, the necessity of adopting a common framework in order to produce commensurable and shareable results. The final question is whether the computational approach is changing the way epigraphy is studied, to the extent of renovating the discipline on the basis of new, unexplored questions.