Structured metadata for the digital corpora of Ancient epigraphic monuments from Bulgaria

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Keywords:

Digital Epigraphy, EpiDoc, metadata, schema, encoding

Abstract

The paper presents the main features of the EpiDoc-compliant XML template according to which ancient inscriptions in Greek and Latin from the lands of today’s Bulgaria are encoded and then indexed and displayed in the browsable and searchable databases TELAMON and TITVLI

 

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Author Biography

  • Dimitar Iliev, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"

    Dimitar Iliev is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Classics to the University of Sofia. He holds a PhD in Greek Linguistics and MA in Computational Linguistics. His scholarly interests are in the fields of Greek poetry, Greek and Latin linguistics, Late Antiquity, Digital Humanities.

     

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2025-09-18