An observatory of epigraphic resources on the web: the Open Digital Epigraphy Hub

Title

An observatory of epigraphic resources on the web: the Open Digital Epigraphy Hub

Creator(s)

Irene Rossi

Chiara Elena Salvador

Date

2024

Is Part Of

Archeologia e Calcolatori

Volume

35

Issue

2

Pages

503-523

Language

eng

Rights

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

DOI

https://doi.org/10.19282/ac.35.2.2024.51

URI

https://www.archcalc.cnr.it/journal/articles/1371

Zotero BiDiAr

https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/5P75RZQA/item-list

Abstract

The Open Digital Epigraphy Hub (EpiHub) is an open access digital platform developed to streamline accessibility and organization of resources in digital epigraphy. Created within the Humanities and Cultural Heritage Italian Open Science Cloud (H2IOSC), EpiHub addresses the fragmented landscape of digital epigraphic resources, which span disciplines like linguistics, philology, and archaeology. Offering a comprehensive catalogue of national and international resources – such as datasets, digital tools, geographical and chronological gazetteers, dictionaries, and text-processing software – EpiHub structures these assets through descriptive metadata to facilitate discoverability and usability for researchers and practitioners across diverse cultural and temporal scopes. The platform’s flexible back-end architecture supports efficient data management and real-time updates to enhance front-end accessibility, organizing resources by thematic collections and allowing advanced searches based on specific epigraphic needs, such as language, geographic region, or historical period. Emphasizing FAIR principles, EpiHub standardizes metadata and controlled vocabularies to foster broader interoperability and data reuse across research projects. Integrated with related H2IOSC resources, including H-SeTIS and DHeLO, EpiHub aims to become a central resource, continuously enriched to support collaboration and innovation within the digital epigraphy community.

Zotero References Collection

https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/collections/ZRTLDUY3

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Appendix A

Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber: Teaching, Knowledge Exchange & Public Engagement

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