Markup for Museums:
Document Contents
The aim of the workshop is to examine the development and potential uses of EpiDoc and, more generally, XML in the presentation of inscribed materials in museum collections and in the electronic publication of non-standard scripts.
Friday, 11 November
- 4:00 p.m.:
- Public lecture: Charlotte Roueché, “Digitising Aphrodisias” (Smith-Buonanno 106)
- A reception will follow (Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall)
- 7:00:
- informal dinner for workshop participants at local restaurants
Saturday, 12 November
Except where otherwise indicated, all events will be held at the offices of the Scholarly Technology Group, on the ground floor of the Graduate Center, Tower E, 92 Thayer St.
- 9:00-9:30:
- coffee and muffins
- 9:30-9:45:
- Introduction and welcome (John Bodel, Charlotte Roueché)
I. Epidoc and Documents (John Bodel presiding)
- 9:45-10:15:
- “The current state of Epidoc” (Tom Elliot)
- 10:15-10:45:
- “Digital Incunabula and the Classical Text Services protocol” (Neel Smith)
- http://chs75.harvard.edu/projects/diginc/home
- 10:45-11:00:
- coffee break
- 11:00-11:30:
- “The current state of the Etruscan Texts Project” (Rex Wallace, Michael Shamgochian)
- http://etp.classics.umass.edu/
- 11.30-12.15:
- Discussion 1: What to do with texts?
- 12:15-2:30:
- lunch break at local restaurants (with a visit to the art exhibition, “Text Rain”, by Camille Utterbach)
II. Inscribed Art and Museum Collections (Charlotte Roueché presiding)
- 2:30-3:00:
- Maya epigraphy (Stephen Houston)
- 3:00-3:30:
- Rhode Island School of Design Art Museum (Gina Borromeo and Lisa Anderson)
- http://www.risd.edu/museum.cfm
- 3.30-4.00:
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Annewies van den Hoek, Sarolta Takács)
- http://www.mfa.org/
- 4:00-4:15:
- tea break
- 4:15-4:45:
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Chris Lightfoot)
- http://www.metmuseum.org/
- 4:45-5:30:
- Discussion 2: Between collection and corpus
- 7:00-10:00:
- drinks and dinner for participants at the Brown Faculty Club, 1 Magee Street
Sunday, 13 November
- 9:30-10:00:
- coffee and muffins
III. Inscriptions in and out of Context (Michael Satlow presiding)
- 10.00-10.30:
- “The current state of the American Numismatic Society collections” (Sebastian Heath)
- http://www.amnumsoc.org/
- 10.30-10.50:
- “The current state of the U.S. Epigraphy Project” (John Bodel, Elli Mylonas, Lisa Anderson)
- http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/
- 11.00-11:15:
- coffee break
- 10.50-11:00:
- “The current state of the Inscriptions of the Land of Israel project” (Michael Satlow)
- http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/Inscriptions/
- 11.15-11:45:
- “The current state of InsAph” (Charlotte Roueché, Gabriel Bodard)
- http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk
- 12.00-12.45:
- Discussion 3: Quo Vadimus?
- 12.45-1:00:
- Closing remarks (John Bodel and Charlotte Roueché)
- 1:00:
- lunch for conference participants (local restaurants)