EpiDoc and Digital Epigraphy Workshop

This three-day, in-person workshop introduces several digital approaches to the study of epigraphy—reading and publishing historical texts inscribed on stone or other durable materials, and recording the objects on which they are inscribed. We will discuss and have the opportunity to practice two advanced imaging techniques: photogrammetry and reflectance transformation imaging, both of which use photography to capture 3D and other surface information of heritage objects. We will also apply the encoding scheme EpiDoc (an implementation of TEI XML) to record the text and object description and history of inscriptions in Old Irish, Latin, Greek, Egyptian and other ancient languages. The workshop is taught by Gabriel Bodard (London), Megan Kasten (Glasgow), Christine Morris (Trinity), Patricia O’Connor (Maynooth) and Nora White (Maynooth), and includes keynote lectures by Charlotte Roueché (King’s College London) and Pádraic Moran (University of Galway).