Chapter Hesperia, a Database for Palaeohispanic Languages; and AELAW, a Database for the Ancient European Languages and Writings. Challenges, Solutions, Prospects

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2019
• Subjects: Archaeological science, methodology & techniques; Classical texts; History: theory & methods; History; Palaeography (history of writing); Writing systems, alphabets; Ancient languages; data modelling; digital humanities; epigraphy; grapheme analysis; interoperability; lexicography; palaeography; scripts; text encoding; translation; writing systems
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (13 p.)
• ISBN: 9783110607192; 9783110607208; 9783110607208-004; 9783110607444
• Access: Open Access

This miscellaneous volume collects contributions on nineteen projects dealing with Digital Epigraphy - they are diversified in geographic and chronological context, for script and language, and for typology of digital output. The objective is to point out the methodological issues which are specific to the application of information technologies to epigraphy, with a focus on data modelling and text annotation, lexicography and interoperability.