The aim of the workshop is to exchange information about the digital exploitation of documents (What are we doing?), to learn about each others methodologies (How are we doing it?) and to exchange ideas about future progress and plans (Where are we going? What do we need?). We hope to keep discussion as informal as possible: it is helpful to learn about each others mistakes, and also to share wild ideas.

Saturday, 17 September am

What? and How?

Section I: corpora and collections

9.45 Welcome

10.00 M. Dohnicht (BBAW): Die Datenbanken des CIL

http://cil.bbaw.de 

10.30 M. Dohnicht (BBAW): Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg

http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/sonst/adw/edh/ 

11.00 - Kaffeepause -

11.30 Christian Bauer (Humboldt University)

The documentation of Southeast Asian inscriptions: from 'worst practice' to inadequate standards? Leiden, EpiDoc, ISO 639, and Unicode 4.1

12.00 First discussion: Corpus versus Database

12.30-14.00 - Mittagpause -

Section II: Independent projects; multiple content

14.00 C. Witschel (Heidelberg): A proposal for Late Antique inscriptions of the Latin West

14.30 Klaus Freitag (Münster):

Die bibliographische Datenbank "Hellas" und die Bedeutung der Reiseberichte für die Erforschung des Altertums

http://www.uni-muenster.de/Hellas/Reiseberichte.shtml 

15.00 Dr. Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst (BBAW): The Turfan project
http://www.bbaw.de/bbaw/Forschung/Forschungsprojekte/turfanforschung/de/Startseite 

15.30 R. Haensch : DAI Munich projects

http://www.dainst.org/abteilung_271_en.html 

16.00 - Teepause -

16.30 Tools I: Zaneta Au, Gabriel Bodard, Juan Garces (KCL): Useful tools under construction: lemmatiser; checking page; workspace; etc.

17.00 Discussion 2 What tools do we need

What tools do we need next? How do we disseminate publications? What gives them authority?

Sunday, 18 September

Section III. Projects which exploit / analyse digitised documents:

10.00 Matthaeus Heil (BBAW): PIR

http://www.bbaw.de/bbaw/Forschung/Forschungsprojekte/pir/de/Startseite 

10.30 The Byzantine Prosopographies:

C. Ludwig / T. Pratsch (BBAW): PmbZ

http://www.bbaw.de/bbaw/Forschung/Forschungsprojekte/pmbz/de/Startseite 

C. Roueché (KCL): PBW

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/PBE/ 

11.15 - Kaffeepause -

11.45 Discussion 3: How should corpora and analytical projects interrelate?

12.30-14.00 - Mittagpause -

Section IV: Projects in epigraphy and archaeology

14.00 Charlotte Roueché (KCL): InsAph

http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk 

14.30 Geni Beu-Dachin (Bucharest): Encoding the Latin Inscriptions from Roman Dacia

15.00 Ortolf Harl (Vienna) Ubi erat lupa

www.ubi-erat-lupa.org 

15.30 - Teepause -

16:00 Tools II: Zaneta Au, Gabriel Bodard, Juan Garces (KCL): Interchange between projects: EDH to EpiDoc. Word to XML

16.30 Discussion IV: What next?

A round table discussion and exchange: how can all these projects best intercommunicate and support one another? How can we offer sustainability?