Mycenaean EpiDoc April 2023
Training session as part of Epigraphy.info Workshop 7.
KU Leuven, Monday April 24, 11:00-13:00 CEST.
Mycenaean Greek texts (ca. 1350-1150) are written in a syllabary that we call Linear B. In scholarly editions they are usually transcribed using latin letters and a system (Wingspread Conventions) similar to, but not identical with, the Leiden Conventions. Digital encoding of Mycenaean texts (as in the online databases DAMOS and LiBER), at the moment, has not made use of EpiDoc. However, to facilitate work on Mycenaean inscriptions to conform to FAIR principles (e.g. to make exchange and reuse of data by other epigraphical databases easier) work on the alignment of EpiDoc with Mycenaean usage was recently started and published as an appendix to the EpiDoc-guidelines.
The workshop will be a hands-on, collaborative, group work on completing the alignment of EpiDoc with the Wingspread Conventions, with the aim—in addition to provide a new encoding tool for Mycenologists—of giving an in-depth picture of the workings of EpiDoc and how it can be adapted to different epigraphic traditions.
Participants are expected to be acquainted with the basics of EpiDoc and of Myceanean transcription beforehand. Useful links below (if you need them):
- The Rules of XML (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (19 min) (Quite technical introducion if you have never used XML before)
- EpiDoc Transcription Quick-Reference (QuickRef) (Gabriel Bodard) (10 min)
- Abbreviations (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (8 min)
- Symbols (slides) (Irene Vagionakis) (10 min)
- Complex lacunae (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (14 min)
- Editorial corrections (slides) (Gabriel Bodard) (13 min)
- Wingspread Conventions overview with examples
- General introduction to Digital Mycenology (+ Youtube video) (2017) (1h 23 min; 18:38-28:50: Introduction to Mycenaean; 39:20-1:06:20: Digital resources for Mycenaean (some information outdated))
- Introduction to Mycenaean, Wingspread Conventions and DAMOS:
- Aurora 2015 (pp. 21-25)
- Aurora 2017 (pp. 83-91)
- Wingspread to EpiDoc working spreadsheet