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Annotated Text Databases in Eyptology and Coptic Studies

A Wiki for the discussion and coordination of TEI/EpiDoc encoding and metadata thesauri for ancient Egyptian and Coptic manuscripts (and probably beyond)

Keywords: Digital Humanities, Egyptology, Coptic Studies, TEI XML, EpiDoc.

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TEI Encoding

• Metadata on text support and text in TEI Header
• Encoding of the text proper in the TEI Body

Metadata Thesauri

• Languages and scripts
• Text support materials
• Colors
• Text support types
• Text classes/text types
• Places (settlements, regions, countries)
• Personal names (ancient, modern)

Unicode

Compare the hints in the Wiki Glossing Ancient Languages.

Projects

• Projet Ramsès, Université de Liège.
• Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin & Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig.
• Project Die Ägyptische und orientalische „Rubensohn-Bibliothek“, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Papyrussammlung, Berlin.
• Project SeNeReKo, Centrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Studien (CERES), Ruhr-Universität Bochum & Trier Center for Digital Humanities (TCDH).
• Database and Dictionary of Greek Loanwords in Coptic, Ägyptologisches Institut der Universität Leipzig.
• Excellence Cluster Topoi, Research Project C-2 and Topoi Lab C, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.