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Welcome to the EpiDoc Tutorials and Syllabus site.

This site collects video tutorials and other training resources that can be used to support teaching and learning of EpiDoc – the use of TEI XML for ancient documentary texts such as those on papyri, inscriptions, seals, and other supports. The resource is in progress; in the meantime you may find the following sections useful.

EpiDoc at SunoikisisDC

While we are populating the full EpiDoc syllabus, you may find some of these introductions to text encoding and EpiDoc (from the Sunoikisis Digital Classics programmes over the last few years) a useful start.

• EpiDoc XML (Bodard/Sopracasa/Vagionakis), October 2020: YouTube video; Session outline
• EpiDoc (Bodard/Tupman), February 2020: YouTube video; Session outline
• EFES (Bodard/Filosa/Stoyanova), February 2020: YouTube video; Session outline
• Epigraphic Markup: Leiden to EpiDoc (Bodard/Mylonas), January 2019: YouTube video; Session outline
• Digital Papyrology (Reggiani/Vierros), June 2018: Youtube video; Session outline
• Markup 1: EpiDoc (Bodard/Berti/Filosa), February 2018: YouTube video; Session outline
• Markup 2: EpiDoc & Papyri.info (Bodard/Stoyanova/Vannini), February 2018: YouTube video; Session outline
• Encoding Ancient Texts (Bodard/Stoyanova), February 2017: YouTube video; Session outline
• Encoding Ancient Texts (Aurora/Bodard/Stoyanova), March 2016: YouTube video; Session outline

Topic 1: Introductions

• History of EpiDoc
• Electronic publishing
• Replacing print with semantic markup (Bibliography example)
• Structural markup, XML, TEI
• Rules of XML
• EpiDoc Guidelines and Quick-references
• Editing your XML file

Topic 2: Text transcription

• Document structure
• Lacunae and restorations
• Abbreviations
• Fragments and sections
• Glyphs and monographs
• Certainty and precision
• Metre in EpiDoc
• Corrections, variants, and editorial history
• Apparatus Criticus

Topic 3: History and description

• Full epidoc document structure (including teiHeader, msDesc)
• Description of object and text
• Lettering and hands
• Dates and Dating
• Places and provenance
• Texts in multiple parts
• Bibliography
• Edition statement, editors and responsibility
• Linking/embedding images

Topic 4: tagging of indexing features

• Places
• People
• Dates
• Words
• Arbitrary indexable features
• Use of internal and external authority lists

Topic 5: Publication and EFES

• Overview of XML publishing frameworks (EFES, TEIPub, PN/Perseids, CETEIcean, …)
• EFES:
  • Installing EFES
  • Setting up EFES (indexing/harvesting)
  • Indexing and search facets
  • Authority lists
  • Adding your own home page
  • Customization
• EpiDoc Stylesheets overview (for EFES and elsewhere)
• Stylesheet parameters
• Introduction to Xpath (and Regex?)
• Introduction to XSLT

Topic 6: Other EpiDoc tools and issues

• Papyri.info
• Perseids
• EAGLE MediaWiki; Wikidata; story tool
• Oxygen forms?
• Customising the EpiDoc ODD (“chaining”)