Markup of the epigraphy and archaeology of Roman Libya
Charlotte Tupman
King’s College London
Map courtesy Society for Libyan Studies
Joyce Reynolds at Cyrene, February 2008
Trajanic inscription from the bath house, Cyrene
HTML
<i>The Roman Stonecutter</i>
XML
<title>The Roman Stonecutter</title>
HTML
<i>mens sana in corpore sano</i>
XML
<foreign>mens sana in corpore sano</foreign>
Features of XML
• XML is extensible: it does not consist of a fixed set of tags
• XML documents must be well-formed according to a defined syntax
• an XML document can be formally validated against a schema of some kind
• XML is more interested in the meaning of data than in its presentation
Transformations
• For format (HTML, PDF, etc.)
• For editions (editorial, diplomatic, etc.)
• For collation (indices, ToCs, etc.)
Web
Mobile PDA
Book Journal PDF
XML repository
Output media/formats
Database
Aureli<supplied reason=“lost”>us</supplied>
<name>Aureli<supplied reason=“lost”>us</supplied></name>
<name type=“gentilicium”>Aureli<supplied reason=“lost”>us</supplied></name>
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charlotte.tupman@kcl.ac.uk