Michael Satlow, Brown University
Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine: A Digital Project
2016 EVA/Minerva Jerusalem International Conference on Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
http://2016.minervaisrael.org.il
http://www.digital-heritage.org.il
2. Goals
How the Site Works
Encoding Standards
Technical Details
Workflow
Linked Data
The Future
OUTLINE
3. Collection, not an edition
Public accessibility
Enable scholarly analysis/visualization
GOALS
9. Extensible Markup Language (XML)
EpiDoc Standard
Metadata
About the physical object: material; type; location; find
About the text: Language; date; religion
Controlled vocabularies
Text
Diplomatic transcription
Edited transcription
English translation
XML Tagging in Hebrew
ENCODING STANDARDS
14. Standards based and automatable
Version control: Subversion (moving to Github)
Servers hit Subversion once an hour automatically
Solr indexed: Preprocesssig (removing Greek accents; interword tags, etc. for
indexing/searching)
Django interface
Data preservation: Brown Digital Repository
TECHNICAL DETAILS
15. Goal: Make encoding as simple and intuitive as possible
Encoders:
Template in Oxygen XML
Files created in shared Dropbox folder
Bibliography in Zotero
WORKFLOW: FIRST STAGE
20. When completed, files are reviewed, preferably by another encoder
After the review, they are uploaded to the development server
Subversion
Processing to enable searching
WORKFLOW: SECOND STAGE
23. What is it?
Getty Taxonomy (https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/)
E.g., all altar inscriptions in Greek from the third century CE
<category xml:id=¡°#altar¡±>
<catDesc><ref
target=http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300003725>Altar</ref></catDesc>
</category>
OBJECTS
<catDesc><ref target="http://xxxx">Flagstone</ref></catDesc>
</category>
<category xml:id="architectural.flagstone">
<catDesc><ref target="http://xxxx">Flagstone</ref></catDesc>
</category>
<category xml:id="architectural.flagstone">
<catDesc><ref target="http://xxxx">Flagstone</ref></catDesc>
</category>
24. Drawing on images displayed on other sites
E.g., Brooklyn Museum API
(http://www.programmableweb.com/api/brooklyn-museum)
Annotate, process, analyze
VISUAL
25. Redesign the site using more geography and images
Add richer content encoding (e.g., morphological; names)
Analytical tools
A site for the integration and analysis of material culture?
LARGER VISION