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| Project start date: 2007-05 | Project end date: 2010-04 |
The project aims to assemble an online corpus of all the material gathered by Prof Joyce Reynolds during her numerous visits to Libya. The project consists in the digitisation of some 2000 inscriptions from Roman Cyrenaica, nearly a third of which have never previously been published. The new corpus will be presented as a series of documents; but it will also link to an online map of Roman Cyrenaica, being prepared as part of the Pleiades project (http://www.unc.edu/awmc/pleiades.html).
| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| 2d scanning and photography | Data capture |
| Audio interaction (asynchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Audio-visual interaction (synchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Cataloguing and indexing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Coding and standardisation | Data structuring and enhancement |
| General website development | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Geo-referencing and projection | Data structuring and enhancement |
| GPS and total station surveys | Data capture |
| Image enhancement | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Indexing | Data analysis |
| Lemmatisation | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Manual input and transcription | Data capture |
| Resource sharing | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Text encoding - descriptive | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - presentational | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - referential | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Textual interaction (asynchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Textual interaction (synchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Use of existing digital data | Data capture |
| Version control | Strategy and project management |
| Web browser scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
Inscriptions themselves are in museums around the world or in situ in Libya. Typescripts of the epigraphic editions belong to Joyce Reynolds. Many photographs are in Reynolds' collection. More images are being provided by the British School at Rome from the Ward-Perkins Archive. Digital photographs are also being taken on site by the project team.
Generation of XHTML files from XML data and database content for web-delivery; generation of Atom/GeoRSS feeds from XML and database; Production of compressed JPEG files from uncompressed TIFF files for web dissemination; production of KML mapping information from database content
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| King's College London |
| University of Cambridge |
| Other institutions involved: |
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| British School at Rome |
| New York University |
| University of North Carolina |
| Principal staff member: | Joyce Reynolds,Charlotte Roueché,Gabriel Bodard,Hafed Walda,Harold Short |
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| Other staff: | Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s), PhD student(s), Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
| External expertise: | Geographical and Linked Data advice, University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill and New York University |
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| This project description was developed as part of the ICT Guides project. |
| Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record | |
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| Author(s) of record | Paul Spence / Nicholas Cook |
| Title | Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica (IRCyr) |
| Record created | 2009-09-01 |
| Record updated | 2010-02-17 17:25 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2340 |
| Citation of record | Paul Spence / Nicholas Cook: Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica (IRCyr). <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2340> created: 2009-09-01, last updated 2010-02-17 17:25 |
