Epigraphy.info Workshop II Zadar

The second epigraphy.info workshop in Zadar (University of Zadar) took place from Friday, Friday, December 14th – Sunday, December 16th 2018, immediately after the “Linked Pasts IV” conference in Mainz. The workshop took place at the University of Zadar, at the Department of History, at the address Ruđera Boškovića 5.

• Programme of the workshop

• Report on the second workshop in Zadar

• Collaborative Google Docs

• Workshop slides on Github

Venue

Zadar, University of Zadar - Department of History, Ruđera Boškovića 5.It’s placed in the historical Zadar old town, so called Poluotok (Engl. Peninsula).

Attendance

We kindly ask you to visit the Doodle Poll and register either your attendance or one of the other two options by September 24th.

Preliminary programme

The Preliminary programme can be found here. Your input is very welcome, so, please, feel free to send us your suggestions (the deadline for suggestions is August 6th). As agreed in the first epigraphy.info workshop (see in detail in http://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00024397 the main topic of this one should be the demonstration of a prototype web application of an editor and a search mechanism, but other issues will be addressed as well.

Travel and accommodation

Travel

The best way to travel to and from Zadar is by plane and/or by bus; unfortunately, there are no trains leading to Zadar, but there are many buses from Zagreb to Zadar, and the drive takes approximately 3 and a half hours. There are some direct flights to Zadar either by major airline companies or the low-budget ones; however, most of them usually fly on certain days only (e.g. Mondays and Fridays) so perhaps you won’t find them convenient; thus it would perhaps be best to fly to Zagreb (which has more direct lines) and then proceed by bus. Bus lines are quite frequent and you can find timetables at https://voznired.akz.hr/ (for departures from Zagreb to Zadar) or http://www.liburnija-zadar.hr/ (for departures from Zadar to Zagreb). You can also check the following companies: https://getbybus.com/hr/autobus-zagreb and Flixbus.

Accommodation

During the second half of September many hotels and hostels are still booked solid or have only a few rooms left; however, there are plenty of excellent, good and decent apartments or other types of accommodation near the venue where one could find a place to stay (at a reasonable price) so we are positive that you would find a place of your pleasing; we recommend browsing booking.com (places near the University in the old town centre) and looking for places with at least three stars and with the booking.com rating of at least 7.5 and upwards.

In addition, we are glad to inform you that the University could provide a subsidized accommodation (120 kn [app. 16 €] per night per person) at the University dormitory (either in the facilities at Ul. Dr. Franje Tuđmana 24 d or at Trg kneza Višeslava 9) for a maximum of four persons (two two-bed apartments) – if they won’t mind sharing apartments – so we kindly ask those who might be interested in that option to send an application to the Steering committee members together with a brief explanation of their request. The dead-line for the application is August 6th.

Programme

Friday, 14th December 2018 – afternoon 15:00 - 18:00

I. Demonstration of newly developed editors which could serve for epigraphy.info (chair: E. Mylonas):

• Petrae/Patrimonium (V. Razanajao)
• Perseids/Syriaca (video presentation Z. Fletcher) Workshop slides
• Brill editor (E. Suyver) Workshop slides
• Networked epigraphic applications (P. Liuzzo)

• READ editor (L. Calvelli / S. White ) Workshop slides
• TEI-Publisher / Ceteicean / CapiTainS (P. Liuzzo ) Workshop slides

Saturday, 15th December 2018 – morning 09:00 - 13:00

II. Plenary Session (chair: J. Cowey)

Allied project reports (10 minutes each)

• Oxford meeting (T. Elliott) Workshop Slides
• GODOT (F. Grieshaber) Workshop slides
• Trismegistos corpusdata + New Trismegistos API (T. Gheldof)
• LatinNow (video presentation S. Vanderbilt) Workshop Slides
• EPNet (J. M. Bermúdez)
• Comparative Digital Epigraphy and EDAK (P. Liuzzo / F. Weise) Workshop slides
• CRMepi CRMtext (video presentation F. Murano / A. Felicetti)

Decisions about how to formalise

• what is the mission of the epigraphy.info group?
• editorial board & workflow of submission and finalization
• how best to organize the committees memberships, roles and responsibilities
• the relation of these committees to IDEA and AIEGL

Saturday, 15th December 2018 – afternoon 14:00 - 18:00

III. Breakout Sessions - block 1 14:00 - 15:30

IV. Breakout Sessions - block 2 14:00 - 15:30

V. Varia - Plenary Session (chair: T. Elliott) 16:00 - 18.00

Integration of Greek inscriptions (final decision)

• Concept & structure of epigraphy.info (final decision)
• Global search (decision about functional requirements)

Sunday, 16th December 2018 – morning 09:30 - 12:30

VI. Results - Plenary Session (chair: A. Kurilić)

• General discussion
• Conclusions
• Choosing the venue and specific date of the next workshop; choosing members of new committee
• “what to do next?”

* Lunch Buffet (provided by the organisers)