Table of Contents: EpiDoc: Guidelines for Structured Markup of Epigraphic Texts in TEI

• Introduction and Organization
  • Introduction for Epigraphers
  • Background and Rationale
  • Conformance and Interoperability: What it means to be EpiDoc
  • Organization of the Guidelines: where to go from here
  • The encoding of the guidelines, a technical description
• Transcribing and Editing the Text
  • Lines, sections and references to them
    • Lines
    • Units of the text (fragments, columns, sections)
  • Transcription of characters and sigla on the stone
    • Transcription with no problems
    • Transcription with no uncertainty about the form of the character(s), but the editor prefers not to resolve them.
    • Transcription wherein the character would not be unambiguous outside its context
    • Transcription wherein vestiges of characters remain, but they cannot be recognized (extent certain or nearly so)
    • Transcription where letters are completely lost
      • Letters completely lost (extent certain or not certain)
      • Letters completely lost (extent less certain due to variation in the size of surviving characters)
      • An entire line completely lost (extent certain or uncertain)
      • Possibility that letters have been completely lost
    • Letters read by a previous modern observer, but which cannot now be read
    • Transcription where a vacat is evident or suspected
  • Addition and deletion in antiquity
    • Addition of text in antiquity
    • Deletion of text in antiquity
    • Deletion and overstruck addition of text in antiquity
  • Characters and sigla: form and appearance
    • Vowels carrying apices
    • Letters and numerals highlighted by supralinear lines
    • Letters and numerals highlighted by intralinear lines
    • Letters joined (ligature)
    • Reversed letters
    • Special Characters
      • Acrophonic numerals
      • Chi-Rho (☧)
      • Claudian letters
      • Interpuncts
    • "I longa"
    • Tall characters
    • Small characters
    • Characters inscribed above or below the line, but clearly not later additions
    • Indication of the direction of script (e.g. right-to-left)
    • Vowel Quantity
  • Editorial supplements, observations and hypotheses
    • Identification and expansion of abbreviations understood by the editor
    • Identification of abbreviations not understood by the editor
    • Editorial supplement in which the editor makes a "subaudible" word manifest
    • Editorial supplement in which the editor explains a "breviatio" or note
    • Editorial supplement for characters wholly lost
    • Letters omitted because the stonecutter did not carry out the text to the end
  • Editorial corrections
    • Letters erroneously included in the text, which the editor suppresses
    • Letters erroneously omitted from the text, which the editor adds
    • Letters erroneously substituted or incorrectly executed in the text, which the editor corrects
  • Other editorial actions
    • Word or words omitted for the sake of brevity or emphasis by the editor while discussing or quoting a text
  • Critical apparatus
• Describing the Text, the Support and the Context
  • Describing past and present locations of the inscribed object
  • Describing the support, lettering and other physical aspects
    • Measurements
  • Describing the language of the text
• Interpretation: Analysis and Translation
  • Translating the text
  • Scholarly commentary
  • Categorizing and characterizing the text
  • Indicating the date(s) of the text
  • Personal names and prosopography
• Recording and reporting
  • Images of the inscription, support and context
• XML encoding guidance and examples
  • XML Document Structure
    • Introduction to EpiDoc Document Structure
    • Structuring the Digital Title Page ('teiHeader')
      • Using tei:fileDesc
      • Using tei:encodingDesc
      • Using tei:profileDesc
        • Specifying available languages and scripts
      • Using tei:revisionDesc
    • Structuring the Digital Document (tei:text)
    • EpiDoc divisions (tei:div) of the text element (tei:text)
      • Edition
      • Translation
      • Apparatus Criticus
      • Commentary (prosopographical/historical)
      • Description (or Physical Commentary)
      • History
      • Bibliography
      • Pictorial and other Non-Textual Material
  • Other markup issues
    • A note on controlled vocabularies and thesauri
    • Dates
    • Tagging personal names and prosopography
    • Geographic names and topography
    • Verse Inscriptions
    • Ancient and modern languages and scripts
    • Numbers and numerals
    • Literature citations and bibliographic entries
    • Cross-references
• Works cited
• EpiDoc Development: Tools, Techniques and Procedures
  • About the EpiDoc Guidelines
    • Improving the EpiDoc guidelines: how-to
    • The EpiDoc Guidelines for TEI P5
  • Software Tools for EpiDoc work
    • The Chapel Hill Electronic Text Converter (CHETC)
    • The EpiDoc Cocoon Web Application
    • The EpiDoc XSLT Stylesheets
      • Transforming the XML using Oxygen
      • Transforming the XML using jEdit
      • Transforming the XML at the command line (prompt)
    • Built-in consistency tests for guidelines and tools
  • Software and Guidelines Releases
    • Releasing CHETC-JS
    • Releasing the full EpiDoc webapp