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

• Introduction
• Introduction for Epigraphers
• Document Structure
  • Introduction to EpiDoc Document Structure
  • Structuring the Digital Title Page ('teiHeader')
  • Structuring the Digital Document (tei:text)
  • EpiDoc divisions (tei:div) of the text element (tei:text)
    • The Epigraphic Edition
    • The Translation
    • Apparatus Criticus
    • Commentary (prosopographical/historical)
    • Description or Physical Commentary
    • History
    • Bibliography
    • Pictorial and other Non-Textual Material Used to be "Images, Photographs, Drawings, Transcriptions, etc."
• Tagging the Inscribed Text
  • 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)
      • One or more lines completely lost at the beginning or end of a text or fragment (extent 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
    • "I longa"
    • Tall characters
    • Characters inscribed above or below the line, but clearly not later additions
    • Indication of the direction of script (e.g. right-to-left)
  • 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
• Other markup issues
  • A note on controlled vocabularies and thesauri
  • Measurements
  • Dates
  • Personal names and prosopography
  • Geographic names and topography
  • Ancient and modern languages
  • Numbers and numerals
  • Literature citations and bibliographic entries
  • Cross-references
• Interoperability
  • Introduction and philosophy
  • Interoperability with other epigraphic projects
    • Interoperability with AIEGL database projects
  • Interoperability with existing projects/systems beyond the epigraphic domain
  • Groundwork for future interoperability
• 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 at the command line (prompt)
    • Built-in consistency tests for guidelines and tools
  • Software and Guidelines Releases
    • Releasing the full EpiDoc webapp