Taught by Alex Antoniou, Gabriel Bodard, Patricia O'Connor, Nora White.

EpiDoc is the de facto standard for the encoding of ancient epigraphic (including Ogham) and papyrological editions in TEI XML for online publication and interchange (epidoc.stoa.org). In this two-day, hands-on training workshop at the University of Glasgow (9–10 December), we will introduce the encoding of ancient and medieval texts in XML, and sources of information and support on EpiDoc. No technical knowledge is required, but participants are expected to be broadly familiar with the transcription conventions for inscriptions or papyri (e.g. the Leiden Conventions), and either Greek, Latin, Irish/Gaelic or the ancient language of their epigraphic or papyrological tradition.

The workshop will involve asynchronous training materials and exercises that you should watch in advance, and hybrid attendance can be facilitated. Participants may also be interested in continuing the EpiDoc discussions on the following day (11 Dec) with an optional morning session, followed by a discussion and showcase that afternoon of two recent EpiDoc projects hosted by the University of Glasgow’s Textual Editing Lab (details here).

1. Oxygen XML Editor (download) (30-day free trial)
   1. If you prefer, you may instead use an open source XML editor such as Visual Studio Code, with the extensions XML (XML Language Support by Red Hat), tei-publisher-vscode (Visual Studio Code extension to support TEI editing) and Scholarly XML (XML validator RELAX NG and Schematron) installed. You may need to restart your computer after installing plugins.
2. For the EpiDoc exercises: download the EpiDoc Template (right-click on the link and "save link as…")

• 11:00 Welcome and introductions
  • Gentle Introduction to EpiDoc projects
  • Encode some inscriptions together (see Epigraphic Database Heidelberg for inscriptions)
  • EpiDoc Guidelines
• 13:00–14:30 Lunch (provided for PG students)
• 14:30 Text transcription
  • Practice and discussion (hybrid)
• 16:00–17:00 Independent practice

• 10:00 Questions and discussion
• 10:30 Discussion of Linked Open Data, interoperability, and controlled vocabularies
  • FAIR Epigraphy
  • EAGLE
  • EpiVoc
  • WikiProject Epigraphy
  • Logainm
  • Pleiades
  • Geonames
  • World Historical Gazetteer
• 11:00–12:30 Object Description
  • Practice and discussion (hybrid)
• 13:00–14:00: Lunch (provided for PG students)
• 14:00 Places and people; Editorial correction and apparatus
  • Practice and discussion (hybrid)
• 15:30–16:00: Coffee
• 16:00 EpiDoc “Office Hour” (hybrid: signup for online participants)

• 10:30–12:30 EpiDoc discussion and practice (Clarice Pears Building, Room 102)
• 12:30–14:00 Lunch break
• 14:00–16:00 Textual Editing Lab seminar: Editing Inscriptions with EpiDoc: Case Studies from Glasgow
  • All welcome. Registration required.
  • Venue: Boyd Orr Building, Room 709B

Watch the following instructional videos (as needed) before the workshop. In some cases you may find the slides a useful overview or primer.

• Structure of an EpiDoc Edition (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (18 min)
• EpiDoc Transcription Quick-Reference (PDF) (Gabriel Bodard) (10 min)
• Greek inscription example in Oxygen (Gabriel Bodard) (34 min)
• Abbreviations (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (8 min)
• Symbols (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (10 min)
• Complex lacunae (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (14 min)

• The Rules of XML (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (19 min)
• Introduction to EpiDoc Guidelines (Irene Vagionakis) (13 min)
• Introduction to Oxygen XML Editor (Gabriel Bodard) (19 min)
• Structure QuickReference (PDF) (Irene Vagionakis) (5 min)
• Description of Object (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (9 min)
• Description of campus or layout (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (5 min)
• Description of Hands, Lettering and Script (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (10 min)

• Authority lists (slides) (Martina Filosa) (16 min)
• Places mentioned in text (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (5 min)
• Names and persons (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (15 min)

• Editorial corrections (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (13 min)
• Apparatus Criticus (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (26 min)
• Bibliography (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (16 min)

• Repository and identifier (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (6 min)
• Origin and locations of object (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (12 min)
• Origin date (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (18 min)
• Fragments and sections of text (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (19 min)
• Verse Inscriptions (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (13 min)
• Certainty and precision (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (17 min)

• EFES (publication platform)
• iSicily Viewer
• Oxygen Stylesheets Project (see “Running EpiDoc Stylesheets” for instructions)
• EpiDoc-Markup list
• EpiDoc Tutorials Youtube channel
• EpiDoc workshops calendar
• EpiDoc resources from Institute of Classical Studies
• EpiDoc at Wikipedia (excellent bibliography)
• EpiDoc projects from Digital Classicist Wiki