1.3 From user to maker: learning by doing
1.3.1 Learning by doing
An overview of digital epigraphic projects
The digital environment has fundamentally changed the way of doing research by providing new possibilities of presenting and searching data. As already seen, the new way in which data is structured has enabled a greater understanding of the link between text, materiality of the object and historical context of production and transmission and has fostered the overcoming of the traditional division among disciplines.
Interview with Charlotte Roueché about the advantages of a digital corpus of inscriptions over a printed publication.Interview with Gabriel Bodard about the strengths of the new digital epigraphic publications.
The transition from user of digital epigraphic resources to maker of digital epigraphic resources involves, on the one hand, understanding the innovation of digital epigraphic databases and corpora in comparison to traditional printed ones; on the other hand, knowing what digital competences are required to be able to actively participate in digital projects. While the latter is the objective of 1.6 The digital epigraphic workshop, the former can be achieved by looking more closely (or behind the scenes through dialogues with experts) at epigraphic digital corpora and digital infrastructures. Therefore, starting from the topic of interdisciplinarity you will find here some presentations of digital epigraphic projects, in which innovations will be particularly emphasised.
Interview with Charlotte Roueché about the main issues scholars must face when publishing digital corpora.Interview with Gabriel Bodard about the weaknesses of new digital epigraphic publications.