Carmen Rome June 2022

CARMEN EpiDoc Practice Workshop

June 21–23, 2022, Rome

Instructors: Elina Boeva (Sofia), Marta Fogagnolo (Bologna)

This workshop will give students the opportunity to practice EpiDoc using their own inscriptions from the CARMEN project, or elsewhere, with a series of guided exercises, and live support from the instructors. Rather than tuition in new materials, this event seeks to consolidate previously acquired skills in text encoding and epigraphic markup through hands-on practice, questions and help. Your questions and encoding needs will dictate the content of the workshop.

Before the workshop

• Make sure you have the Oxygen XML Editor installed on your laptop, with a valid license (either a 30-day trial license, or if that has already expired, a full license paid for by your project)
• Download the EFES visualisation tool (click on the green "Code" button and then "Download ZIP"), and follow the Installation insstructions to be sure it works on your computer. Pay particular attention to the Java Version step. Please let us know before the workshop if you have any problems with this.
• Have headphones that you can use with your laptop, to watch video tutorials without bothering everyone else.
• You should each bring at least 10–20 of your own inscriptions, whether carmina epigraphica or anything else that you have worked on, to practice with during the workshop
• If you already have questions about EpiDoc, please bring them along to share with the group at the workshop
• If you need to revise basic EpiDoc skills, see the videos section below for some online tutorials

Draft programme

Tuesday June 21

• 10:30 Welcome
• 12:00 Lunch
• 14:00 Practice
• 17:00 ends

Wednesday June 22

• 10:00 Practice
• 12:00 Lunch
• 14:00 Practice
• 17:00 ends

Thursday June 23

• 10:00 Welcome
• 12:00 Lunch
• 14:00 Practice
• 16:30 ends
• 17:15–18:45 SunoikisisDC seminar: Natural Language Processing and Historical Maps (online)

Online tutorials

If you need to revise basic EpiDoc skills before the workshop:

1. Introduction

• The rules of XML (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (19 min)
• Semantic markup example (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (9 min)
• Introduction to the EpiDoc Guidelines (EpiDoc Guidelines) (Irene Vagionakis) (13 min)
• Structure of an EpiDoc edition (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (18 min)
• Displaying EpiDoc files using EFES (Gabriel Bodard, Irene Vagionakis & Polina Yordanova) (18 min)

2. Text Transcription

• Latin inscription example in Oxygen (Irene Vagionakis) (17 min)
• Abbreviations (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (8 min)
• Symbols (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (10 min)
• Complex lacunae (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (14 min)
• Editorial corrections (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (13 min)
• Fragments and sections of text (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (19 min)

If you want to go a bit further:

• Certainty and precision (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (17 min)
• Verse inscriptions (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (13 min)
• Apparatus criticus (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (26 min)