(Apologies for cross-posting)
The Centre for Computing in the Humanties, Kings College London, is
again offering an EpiDoc Summer School, on July 14th-18th, 2008. The
training is designed for epigraphers and papyrologists (or related text
editors such as numismatists, sigillographers, etc.) who would like to
learn the skills and tools required to mark up ancient documents for
publication (online or on paper), and interchange with international
academic standards. You can learn more about EpiDoc from the EpiDoc home
page [1] and the Introduction for Epigraphers [2]; you wil find a recent
and user-friendly article on the subject in the Digital Medievalist [3].
(If you want to go further, you can learn about XML [4] and about the
principles of the Text Encoding Initiative [5].) The Summer School will
not expect any technical expertise, and training in basic XML will be
provided.
Attendees (who should be familiar with Greek/Latin and the Leiden
Conventions) will need to bring a laptop on which has been installed the
Oxygen XML editor [6] (available at a reduced academic price, or for a
free 30-day demo).
The EpiDoc Summer School is free to participants; we can try to help you
find cheap (student) accommodation in London. If any students
participating would like to stay on afterwards and acquire some hands-on
experience marking up some texts for the Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica
project [7], they would be most welcome!
All interested please contact both [log in to unmask] and
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message to anyone who you think might benefit.
Links:
[1] http://epidoc.sf.net/
[2] http://www.stoa.org/epidoc/gl/5/introeps.html
[3] http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/4/bodard/
[4] http://www.w3.org/XML/
[5] http://www.tei-c.org/
[6] http://www.oxygenxml.com/
[7] http://ircyr.kcl.ac.uk/
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Dr Gabriel BODARD
(Epigrapher & Digital Classicist)
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388
Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/
http://www.currentepigraphy.org/
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