FAIR Epigraphy

数字人文学科在古代史领域的整合产生了主要的编辑和分析碑文项目，例如，用于行政使用和内容质量控制的双耳罐邮票，在圣殿中有宗教动机的雕刻，希腊罗马铭文或庞贝色情涂鸦；大型数字数据集也为机器学习等新方法的应用打开了大门。使用数字方法和使用数字工具已经打开了人们对新方法的视野，允许对希腊和罗马历史，经济和文化进行创新，不同寻常的视角和解释。有几个大的（100,000+文本）和更多的小规模铭文数据库和语料库。21世纪初EpiDoc TEI XML标准（https://sourceforge.net/p/epidoc/wiki/Home/）的开发加速了这项工作，并激发了将许多优秀数据库联网和制定共同最低标准的第一次国际努力。在过去十年中，EAGLE项目（https://www.eagle-network.eu/）在汇集题词者和鼓励采用Trismegistos id标准（https://www.trismegistos.org/index.php）方面取得了一些出色的成果，但该项目也表明，通过关联数据隐含的互操作性目标需要一种不同于2010年代的方法。FAIR（可查找、可访问、可互操作、可重用：https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/）数据的总体可取性是对古代世界的碑文、语言和物质文化进行高级研究的基础。随着关联开放数据和新接口技术和标准的增加，该项目将能够创建在数字时代改变铭文研究所需的工具和社区。我们的国际合作方法将支持和支持跨铭文数据的创新研究，以及更广泛的数据链接网络（特别是考古数据），这样所有的铭文数据对研究团体和更广泛的公众都越来越公平。为此，我们的目标是：(1)巩固社区范围内的标准（词汇表和本体）；(2)开发社区实施这些标准的工具（词汇和本体托管和发布）；(3)托管和完全访问由各个项目发布的链接开放数据（RDF/XML数据发布）。项目团队将在一个专门的铭文工作者社区的支持和支持下，提供建议和培训，使过去、现在和未来的项目能够与商定的标准保持一致（技术和实践支持，开发最佳实践网络和培训材料）。pi和团队成员将展示碑文关联数据的前沿研究潜力，并通过对希腊和罗马历史、文化和经济的出版物和研究，将其整合到更广泛的数据网络中。

The integration of digital humanities in the field of ancient history has generated major editorial and analytical epigraphic projects based on e.g. amphora stamps for administrative usage and quality control of the content, religiously motivated engravings in sanctuaries, Greco-Roman inscribed epitaphs or Pompeiian pornographic graffiti; large digital datasets have also opened the door to the application of new methods such as Machine Learning. Working with digital methods and making use of digital tools has opened eyes to new approaches, allowing for innovative, unusual perspectives and interpretations of Greek and Roman history, economy and culture. There exist several large (100,000+ texts) and many more small-scale epigraphic databases and corpora. The development of the EpiDoc TEI XML standard (https://sourceforge.net/p/epidoc/wiki/Home/) in the early 2000s has accelerated this work and inspired the first international efforts to network the many, excellent databases and to develop common minimum standards. In the last decade, the EAGLE project (https://www.eagle-network.eu/) achieved some excellent results in bringing together epigraphers and encouraging the adoption of the Trismegistos ID-standard (https://www.trismegistos.org/index.php), but this project also demonstrated that the goal of interoperability implied by linked data requires a different approach than the one at hand in the 2010s. The overall desirability for FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable: https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/) data is fundamental to advanced research into the epigraphic, linguistic and material culture of the ancient world. With the increase in Linked Open Data and novel interface technologies and standards, this project will be able to create the tools and the community needed to transform epigraphic research in the digital age. Our internationally collaborative approach will enable and support innovative research across epigraphic data, and the wider linked web of data (especially archaeological data), such that all epigraphic data is increasingly FAIR for both the research community and the wider public. To that end, we aim to (1) consolidate community-wide standards (vocabularies and ontology); (2) develop the tools for community implementation of those standards (vocabulary and ontology hosting and publication); (3) host and make fully accessible the resulting linked open data published by individual projects (RDF/XML data publication). The project team, supported and backed by a dedicated community of epigraphers, will provide the advice and training to enable alignment with agreed standards by past, current and future projects (technical and practical support, development of best-practice networks and training materials). The PIs and the team members will illustrate the cutting-edge research potential of epigraphic linked data and its integration into the wider web of data by publications and research on Greek and Roman history, culture, and economy.