1 Encoding, Interoperability, Lexicography: Digital Epigraphy Through the Lens of DASI Experience [chapter]

2019 Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy  
This paper describes the main challenges faced and the solutions adopted in the frame of the project DASI -Digital archive for the study of pre-Islamic Arabian inscriptions. In particular, it discusses the methodological and technological issues that emerged during the conversion from the CSAI -Corpus of South Arabian inscriptions project (a domain-specific, text-based, digital edition conceived at the end of 1990s) to the wider DASI archive for the study of inscriptions in different languages
more » ... nd scripts of ancient Arabia. The paper devotes special attention to: the modelling of data and encoding (XML annotation vs database approach; the conceptual model for the valorisation of the material aspect of the epigraph; the textual encoding for critical editions); interoperability (pros and cons of compliance to standards; harmonization of metadata; openness; semantic interoperability); lexicography (tools for underresourced languages; translations), with a view to possibly fostering reasoning on best practices in the community of digital epigraphers beyond each specific cultural/ linguistic domain.
doi:10.1515/9783110607208-002 fatcat:bs4swjaylrhobe66rqq3u42oga