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Crosswalk, crosswalking
‘A general term for moving data from the format of one encoding
scheme or database to another. In EpiDoc terms, it often refers to the
dynamic transformation of the semantic distinctions of epigraphic and
Papyrological editions between EpiDoc XML and one or more
database of texts or catalogue records. These "crosswalks" may take
place in either direction, or in some cases in both directions and
reversible without loss of information. Prominent crosswalks performed by the EpiDoc
‘community include: the conversion of IRT from EpiDoc to the database format of EDH; the
migration of the Duke Databank, HGV and APIS content to EpiDoc as part of the
Papyri.info project (the HGV-to-EpiDoc is lossless and bidirectional); the current conversion
of the EAGLE constituent databases into EpiDoc XML as part of the EAGLE Europeana
project.
Encoding
Encoding in this context means the conversion of human-readable information into
machine-readable information, e.g, in the form of XML.
EpiDoc Example Stylesheets
Software code, written in the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL or XSLT), and intended
for use in transforming EpiDoc XML files into other formats (chiefly text and HTML) using a
range of standard typographical conventions (e.g., Leiden). Documentation and further
information are to be found on the Stylesheets page in the EpiDoc Wiki
EpiDoc Schema
A formally structured set of rules that tells an XML editor or processor what elements,
attributes and other content are available in an EpiDoc file and how these are to be
structured. Documentation and further information are to be found on the Schema page in
the EpiDoc Wiki
Leiden, Leiden Conventions
‘A set of rules for the encoding of classical epigraphic and papyrological texts using simple,
arbitrary and unambiguous symbols to represent editorial observations and interventions,
e.g. [' and} for lost text (restored or lacuna). There are several minor variations on Leiden.
now in use (Krummrey-Panciera and PETRAE perhaps prominent among them). A good
‘summary of Leiden can be found at en.wikipedia orgiwiki/Leiden_Conventions
Leident (Leiden-plus)
Leidens is a system of text markup, based very closely on Leiden but including new signs
and combinations for complex apparatus markup, for example, devised for the
Papyrological Editor's "tags-free" editing environment. Full description and documentation
of Leident is at papyri info/editor/help.
Markup
Markup language in a way to encode a text's contents in order to enable different ways of
representation and e.g. to extract information to be collected for indexes, or search tools
(ct. Encoding).
"Markup" is sometimes also used as shorthand for the Markup List, an email list for the
discussion of EpiDoc and other ancient text markup matters,
Morpheus
‘The Morpheus morphological analysis service is a tool originally developed by Perseus,
versions of which are in use by Papyti.info and the TLG for lemmatizing their Greek texts.
‘The Perseus version of the tool also caters for Latin and Arabic lemmatization. (More
information at Bamboo and Perseus.)
Papyrological Navigator (PN)
‘The search and browse interface of the Papyri.info platform, which incorporates the
DDbDP, HGV, APIS and other papyrological databases.
Papyrological editor (PE)
‘The text-editing, management and editorial workflow tool of the Papyri.info platform,
allowing community contribution to and emendation of the corpus of documentary
Papyrology, notably via the tags-free Leiden+ editing interface.
Perseus
‘The Perseus Digital Library Project studies the progression from physical to digital libraries
and offers an increasing number of texts. Searches and a number of tools can be used
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directly on the website while reading, e.g. the Morpheus dictionary tool for Greek and Latin
texts.
Pleiades.
A gazetteer of places and place names from the ancient world, building on the project that
produced the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Pleiades assigns unique
identifiers to all places, enabling a web of Linked Data such as that curated by the Pelagios
project. Pleiades can be found at pleiades.stoa.org,
TEI
‘Text Encoding Initiative. Guidelines and tools for the encoding of literary and historical texts
in XML, Its the format on which EpiDoc is based. The latest TE! Guidelines can be found
online at http://www.tei-c.orgirelease/docitei-pS-doclenvhtml/index-toc. html
World Wide Web Consortium
‘The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community developing
standards to be used across the Internet, The public can take part, but there is also full-
time staff and entire organizations that are members of the endeavour. For further
information, see: www.w3.0rg.
XML
Extensible Markup Language. A text-based encoding format that allows the structured
‘encoding of text or data in human- and machine-readable format. Its the technical basis of
both TEI and EpiDoc, and is a standard maintained by the World-wide Web Consortium,
See www.w3.org/XML for the spec and further description.
XSLT
Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations. XSLT is a language that can convert
XML documents into either different XML or other forms, .g. the HTML format used for
websites, the import format for a database, or the Open Document Format behind a word-
processing document. The EpiDoc Stylesheets are an example of XSLT used to transform
EpiDoc XML to common display formats. A useful introduction to XSLT is offered by W3
Schools.
Responsibility for this section
41, Gabriel Bodard, author
2, Laura Loser, author
3. Tom Elliott, author
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