I direct on online project that seeks to collect, analyze, and make accessible the inscriptions of Israel/Palestine from roughly the sixth century BCE to the seventh century, CE. The site can be accessed here. Over the past few years the team working on this project has had to confront a wide variety of technical and architectural challenges, and we have been producing presentations on those challenges and our approach to them. We (although I was not there!) recently presented at TEI2019, a meeting devoted to the Textual Encoding Initiatives. In this presentation, we discussed our approach to archiving our data according to the best current framework, known as FAIR, which seeks to make data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. We will soon be submitting the paper for publication, but the abstract and slides of the presentation are now available. The slides can be found here and the abstract is below: The Inscriptions of Israel Palestine Project is an online corpus of inscriptions from Israel and Palestine, written in Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Aramaic, dating roughly from the Persian Period to the Arab Conquest. As of spring 2019, it has collected and encoded more than 4000 inscriptions, out of some 10000 […]
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