g2 michale satlow_inscriptionsisraelpalestine
TRANSCRIPT
http://www.brown.edu/iip
INSCRIPTIONS OF
ISRAEL/PALESTINE
Goals
How the Site Works
Encoding Standards
Technical Details
Workflow
Linked Data
The Future
OUTLINE
Collection, not an edition
Public accessibility
Enable scholarly analysis/visualization
GOALS
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
EpiDoc Standard
Metadata
About the physical object: material; type; location; find
About the text: Language; date; religion
Controlled vocabularies
Text
Diplomatic transcription
Edited transcription
English translation
XML Tagging in Hebrew
ENCODING STANDARDS
<sourceDesc>
<msDesc><msIdentifier><idno>sepp0002</idno></msIdentifier><!-- ********* <msContents> ********* -->
<msContents><textLang mainLang="arc"/><msItem class="#dedicatory" ana="#jewish"><p>Galilee. Sepphoris. 400-500 CE. Synagogue. Black and white floor mosaic. Dedication.</p></msItem></msContents><!-- ********* <physDesc> ********* -->
<physDesc><!-- ********* <objectDesc> ********* -->
<objectDesc ana="#floor"><supportDesc><support><dimensions type="surface"><height unit="cm" quantity="38"/><width unit="cm" quantity="38"/></dimensions><p/></support><condition><p/></condition>
</supportDesc>
ENCODING SAMPLE: METADATA
<body>
<div type="edition" ana="#b1" xml:lang="heb" subtype="transcription"
xml:id="sepp0004.transcription" corresp="#sepp0004.translation">
<p><supplied reason="undefined"> />דכי supplied>
>ר לטב lb/>
<gap reason="illegible"/>
>בר תדי lb/>
<supplied reason="undefined"> />בר supplied>
>שאביה lb/>
>ובנוי lb/>
אמן אמן </ p>
</div>
SAMPLE OF HEBREW TAGGING
Sharing data
EAGLE
USING THE EPIDOC STANDARD
Standards based and automatable
Version control: Subversion (moving to Github)
Servers hit Subversion once an hour automatically
Solr indexed: Preprocesssig (removing Greek accents; interword tags, etc. for
indexing/searching)
Django interface
Data preservation: Brown Digital Repository
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Goal: Make encoding as simple and intuitive as possible
Encoders:
Template in Oxygen XML
Files created in shared Dropbox folder
Bibliography in Zotero
WORKFLOW: FIRST STAGE
When completed, files are reviewed, preferably by another encoder
After the review, they are uploaded to the development server
Subversion
Processing to enable searching
WORKFLOW: SECOND STAGE
API (Application Programming Interface)
Geographical
Objects
Visual
LINKED DATA
Pleiades (http://pleiades.stoa.org)
<origin>
<placeName ref=https://Pleiades.stoa.org/places/687968>
<location unit=“lat-lon”><geo>31.31904988, 35.35230084</geo></location>
<region>Judaea</region>
<settlement>Masada</settlement>
<geogFeat type=“locus”>113</geogFeat>
</placeNeme>
</origin>
GEOGRAPHICAL LINKING
What is it?
Getty Taxonomy (https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/)
E.g., all altar inscriptions in Greek from the third century CE
<category xml:id=“#altar”>
<catDesc><ref
target=http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300003725>Altar</ref></catDesc>
</category>
OBJECTS
<category xml:id="architectural.flagstone">
<catDesc><ref target="http://xxxx">Flagstone</ref></catDesc>
</category>
<category xml:id="architectural.flagstone">
<catDesc><ref target="http://xxxx">Flagstone</ref></catDesc>
</category>
<category xml:id="architectural.flagstone">
<catDesc><ref target="http://xxxx">Flagstone</ref></catDesc>
</category>
Drawing on images displayed on other sites
E.g., Brooklyn Museum API
(http://www.programmableweb.com/api/brooklyn-museum)
Annotate, process, analyze
VISUAL
Redesign the site using more geography and images
Add richer content encoding (e.g., morphological; names)
Analytical tools
A site for the integration and analysis of material culture?
LARGER VISION
NEW INTERFACE
http://cds.library.brown.edu/projects/Inscriptions/map/
GEOGRAPHICAL PLOTTING
(BETA)