An observatory of epigraphic resources on the web: the Open Digital Epigraphy Hub

Rossi, Irene and Salvador, Chiara (2024) An observatory of epigraphic resources on the web: the Open Digital Epigraphy Hub. Archeologia e Calcolatori, 35 (2). pp. 503-523. ISSN 1120-6861

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Abstract

The Open Digital Epigraphy Hub (EpiHub) is an open access digital platform developed to streamline accessibility and organization of resources in digital epigraphy. Created within the Humanities and Cultural Heritage Italian Open Science Cloud (H2IOSC), EpiHub addresses the fragmented landscape of digital epigraphic resources, which span disciplines like linguistics, philology, and archaeology. Offering a comprehensive catalogue of national and international resources such as datasets, digital tools, geographical and chronological gazetteers, dictionaries, and text-processing software, EpiHub structures these assets through descriptive metadata to facilitate discoverability and usability for researchers and practitioners across diverse cultural and temporal scopes. The platform's flexible back-end architecture supports efficient data management and real-time updates to enhance front-end accessibility, organizing resources by thematic collections and allowing advanced searches based on specific epigraphic needs, such as language, geographic region, or historical period. Emphasizing FAIR principles, EpiHub standardizes metadata and controlled vocabularies to foster broader interoperability and data reuse across research projects. Integrated with related H2IOSC resources, including H-SeTIS and DHeLO, EpiHub aims to become a central resource, continuously enriched to support collaboration and innovation within the digital epigraphy community.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Data encoding and metadata; Epigraphy and numismatics
Subjects:	900 Storia, Geografia e discipline ausiliarie > 930 Storia dei mondo antico fino al 499 ca. > 930.1 Archeologia (Classificare qui la Storia fino al 4000 a.C., l'Archeologia preistorica, le opere interdisciplinari sull'Archeologia) > 930.102 Archeologia - Opere miscellanee > 930.1028 Archeologia – Tecniche, metodologie, apparecchi e strumenti (comprende: Archeometria) > 930.10285 Archeologia – Applicazioni informatiche (comprende: tecniche di datazione)
Depositing User:	Dott.ssa Paola Moscati
Date Deposited:	28 Oct 2025 14:41
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2025 14:41
URI:	http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/23693

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