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| Project start date: 2008-07 | Project end date: 2009-06 |
This is the republication of a volume of almost 1,000 inscriptions (almost all in Latin) of the Roman period from Tripolitania (Libya): the original volume was published in 1952, but with very little illustration, and very sketchy maps. This re-edition makes no alterations to the academic content. The new elements are that it includes photographs of almost all the texts, and it maps the data onto the map of Libya in Google Maps or Google Earth. It also includes new English translations of all the texts - very important for a resource which will not just sit on a library shelf, but be available wherever the world wide web can be accessed.
| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| 2d scanning | Practice-led research |
| 2d scanning and photography | Data capture |
| Audio-visual interaction (synchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Collating | Data analysis |
| General website development | Data publishing and dissemination |
| GPS and total station surveys | Data capture |
| Indexing | Data analysis |
| Lemmatisation | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Photography | Practice-led research |
| Prototyping | Strategy and project management |
| Searching and querying | Data analysis |
| Text encoding - descriptive | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - presentational | 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 |
Some 1000 inscriptions are held in various meseum collection, mostly in Libya but also Italy, Austria, Turkey, and Britain. The primary source for this project was the 1952 printed volume (and supplementary article from 1954), of which this is an enhanced re-publication.
Online publication of some 1000 Latin and Greek inscriptions, along with rich indices, multiple tables of contents, supporting materials and illustrations, new translations, a semantically aware search engine and rich digital maps using the Google API.
Generation of XHTML files from XML data for web-delivery; Production of compressed JPEG files from uncompressed TIFF files for web dissemination; abstraction of data into XML tables for searching with Lucene database; surfacing of data and relationships in Atom XML for web harvesting
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, by J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, enhanced electronic reissue by Gabriel Bodard and Charlotte Roueché (2009). ISBN 978-1-897747-23-3. Available: http://irt.kcl.ac.uk/irt2009/
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| Cambridge University |
| King’s College London |
| Other institutions involved: |
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| British School at Rome |
| New York University |
| Principal staff member: | Joyce Reynolds,Charlotte Roueché,Gabriel Bodard,Hafed Walda |
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| Other staff: | Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s), PhD student(s), Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
| External expertise: |
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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 | Gabriel BODARD |
| Title | Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania |
| Record created | 2009-11-13 |
| Record updated | 2010-02-17 17:25 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3127 |
| Citation of record | Gabriel BODARD: Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3127> created: 2009-11-13, last updated 2010-02-17 17:25 |
