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Gabriel Bodard edited this page Jul 19, 2017 · 36 revisions

EpiDoc Front-End Services (EFES) will be a free, easy to use, highly customisable platform for the online publication of ancient texts in EpiDoc XML, allowing the creation of multiple indices, search and browse interface, geographical visualisation, and integration with linked open data.

This platform will be based on existing tools (e.g. Kiln; EpiDoc XSLT; IOSPE; Papyri.info) and input from scholars involved in some of the leading digital epigraphy projects from Europe and USA. One of the project's key aims is that the specialized features can be selected from and deployed by a non-specialist user, to which end we are writing detailed documentation and offering training in the use of the tool. The flexibility that comes with this customisation will also help reduce the artificial barriers between the study of ancient cultures of the Mediterranean and the rest of the world, and this expansion into new areas will in turn lead to further developments in the EpiDoc standard itself.

Documentation

Project Team

  • Gabriel Bodard (PI), Reader in Digital Classics, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London
  • Jamie Norrish, Wellington, New Zealand, one of the lead developers of the Kiln platform
  • Polina Yordanova, Sofia, Bulgaria, who will coordinate the design, specification, and user documentation

Training events

  • London, UK, September 2017 (date to be confirmed)
  • Sofia, Bulgaria, November 2017 (date to be confirmed)
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