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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