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XML text markup for ancient documents

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EpiDoc is an international, collaborative effort that provides guidelines and tools for encoding scholarly and educational editions of ancient documents. It uses a subset of the Text Encoding Initiative's standard for the representation of texts in digital form and was developed initially for the publication of digital editions of ancient inscriptions (e.g. Inscriptions of Aphrodisias, Vindolanda Tablets). Its domain has expanded to include the publication of papyri and manuscripts (e.g. Papyri.info). It addresses not only the transcription and editorial treatment of texts themselves, but also the history and materiality of the objects on which the texts appear (i.e., manuscripts, monuments, tablets, papyri, and other text-bearing objects).

Latest Release of all EpiDoc code: 8.21

Core EpiDoc Components

EpiDoc Guidelines: recommendations for markup of transcription, descriptive features, etc. (About)
EpiDoc Schema: the TEI-derived schema against which EpiDoc XML should be validated

[EpiDoc Example Stylesheets](Stylesheets): for transforming EpiDoc XML to HTML, text or ODF

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About EpiDoc
Markup List: email list for discussions, questions, and help with EpiDoc issues
Other mailing lists:
- EnCoWS: Encoding Complex Writing Systems in TEI/EpiDoc
- Ancient-People: for discussion of SNAP and other prosopographical projects
EpiDoc Training: events, tutorials and summer schools
Software and Tools for working with XML and EpiDoc
Example Projects and Files
EpiDoc IRC Chatroom: for realtime EpiDoc support and chat
EpiDoc on Facebook

Miscellanea

Scholars and students of antiquity who are new to EpiDoc and the idea of text markup are encouraged to read Charlotte Roueché and Julia Flanders' Introduction for Epigraphers.

To cite this website, please use the following information:

Tom Elliott, Gabriel Bodard, Hugh Cayless et al. (2006-2013), EpiDoc: Epigraphic Documents in TEI XML. Online material, available: <http://epidoc.sf.net>.