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2021-03-18 ZOOM-Universe
Jewish/Israel DH meetup

epidat - research platform for Jewish Epigraphy

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Thomas Kollatz | Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz | Digital Academy
@kol_t @_epidat | CC-BY 4.0
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about epidat
02
sharing data
03
one more thing …
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literature

01

about epidat

What is epidat

epidat is a database

As a database for Jewish gravestone epigraphy, epidat is used to inventory, document, edit and present epigraphic holdings. Currently inscriptions of Jewish cemeteries from nine centuries and four countries are made available via chronological, spatial and thematic approaches.

epidat is a research plattform

As a research platform for Jewish gravestone epigraphy, epidat offers open interfaces to the research data and is involved in interdisciplinary research projects and cooperations in the context of digital epigraphy and Jewish Studies.

epidat is a long-term epigraphic project

Epidat started in 2002 and has been continuously developed since then. The database and research platform was launched online in 2006. Since March 2019 epidat is jointly developed within the framework of a scientific cooperation between the Salomon-Ludwig-Steinheim-Institute, Essen and the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz.

what is epidat

scope

cemeteries 227
headstones 39,851
digital images 78,737
persons 45,557
dates 26,557
countries 6
de nl cz lv pl es

one out of 39,851 items

headstone Hamburg 1791
‎‏גם חסידה בשמים‏‎
‎‏פה שוכבת הדרת הנשים‏‎
‎‏אף גם עדים וצבי תפארתם‏‎
‎‏גמלה חסד עם הרשים‏‎
‎‏לזמנה היתה כתר מכתם‏‎
‎‏בת פו״מ כהר״ר יוסף‏‎
‎‏פופרט אשת כ״ה משה‏‎
‎‏אפינהיי׳ הגובה באלטונא‏‎
‎‏נפטר׳ ונקבר׳ יום ב׳ ך״ז טבת‏‎
‎‏שנת כצפור נודדת מקנה‏‎
‎‏תנצב״ה ‏‎
place of burial
Hamburg
name(s) | genealogy
Vogel (in acrostic)
father Josef Popert
husband Moshe Oppenheim
task
הגובה באלטונא‏‎ charity administrator
date_of_death
03.01.1791 | 27. Tewet 5551
symbol
bird
style
rhyme, meter, acrostic, chronostic, play on words

Hamburg-Altona hha-1678 or [beta], foto by B. Sommer

one out of 227 collections

  • information on cemetery
    • where – map
    • when – onthisday
    • when – yahrzeit
  • edition
  • person
  • gallery of image

Worms

projects

FAIREpidat Research data are ...
Findableprovided via a machine readable interface
provided via html for human readers and users
Accesibleprovided in the standard format EpiDoc: TEI XML for Epigraphic Documents for machine readable, system-independent, program-independent and structured access (and widely used by digital epigraphers)
Interoperablemapped to authority files, controlled vocabularies and thesauri to maintain interoperability
Re-usablereleased online under an open Creative Commons Licence cc-by
for more information see also How to harvest epidat records

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sharing data

cooperation and re-use

of epidat Research Data

epidoc_banner

base format: EpiDoc Epigraphic Documents in TEI XML

EpiDoc is an international, collaborative effort that provides guidelines and tools for encoding scholarly and educational editions of ancient documents. It uses a subset of the Text Encoding Initiative's standard for the representation of texts in digital form, which focuses on the history and materiality of the texts. EpiDoc was developed for the publication of digital editions of ancient inscriptions, but its domain has expanded to include the publication of papyri and manuscripts, including those beyond the Greco-Roman world.

https://sourceforge.net/p/epidoc/wiki/About/

  • subset of TEI: guidelines
  • developed since 1999 collaborative (and in transcontinental cooperation)
  • latest Release of all EpiDoc code: 9.2 (October 2020-10-13)
  • the TEI subset EpiDoc is used by numerous (non only) epigraphic  projects
  • stoa

structure

metadata – images – text

<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:space="preserve" xml:lang="en">
   <teiHeader>
     <!-- metadata -->
   </teiHeader>

   <facsimile>
      <!-- information on digital images -->
   </facsimile>

   <text>
       <!-- text: edition, commentary, translation, etc. -->
   </text>
</TEI>

EpiDoc offers a template file ex-epidoctemplate.xml
see EpiDoc Guidelines: Structure Of An EpiDoc Edition

metadata: persons and dates

<person xml:id="ffb-80-1" sex="1">
 <persName ref="http://d-nb.info/gnd/11879132X">Meir Rothschild ben Anschel Rothschild</persName>
 <death when="1812-09-19" calendar="#Jewish">13. Tischri 5573<death>
</person>

ffb-80-teip5

person@xml:id unique identifier for person
person@sex unique identifier for gender of person
persName@ref unique identifier in authority file (GND)
death@when common date

metadata: Dating and localization

<history>
 <origin>
  <origDate>
   <date notBefore="1812-09-19">19. September 1812</date>
  </origDate>
  <origPlace>
   <country type="ISO_3166" key="XA-DE-HE">Germany
     <region>Hesse</region>
   </country>
   <settlement type="city" key="tgn:7005293" ref="http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7005293">
     Frankfurt am Main, Battonnstraße
    <geogName ref="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4331943-9">Jüdischer Friedhof
     <geo decls="#WGS">50.1119 8.689675</geo>
    </geogName>
   </settlement>
  </origPlace>
 </origin>
</history>

ffb-80-teip5

Re-Use – Researchdata

DHd2016 Leipzig / Pre-Conference Workshop For the visualisations, data sets from the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Institut for Jewish-German History and the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz have been used.

Kollatz-Kuczera-Schrade 2016

<particDesc>
 <listPerson>
  <person xml:id="aha-13-1" sex="1">
   <persName>Elieser ben Josef Hakohen</persName>
   <death when="1879-12-08"/>
  </person>
  <person xml:id="aha-13-2" sex="1">
   <persName>Jehuda ben Josef Hakohen</persName>
   <death when="1879-12-09"/>
  </person>
  <listRelation>
   <relation name="parent" active="#aha-21-1 #aha-48-1" passive="#aha-13-1"/>
   <relation name="sibling" mutual="#aha-50-1 #aha-13-1"/>
   <relation name="sibling" mutual="#aha-13-1 #aha-13-2"/>
  </listRelation>
 </listPerson>
</particDesc>

aha-13-teip5

Re-Use – genealogy

Inspiration for this example drawn from a discussion about visualizing XML based relationships on the TEI mailinglist. Credits and thanks to Thomas Kollatz for the idea. The RDF extraction is modelled on FOAF to represent persons, BIO to represent dates of death and REL to build family relations between persons. Visualization is done using the Sgvizler library and it's Dracula Graph implementation.

Torsten Schrade

RiR-project 2012-2015 | template: Howto make a dynamic map

shape and form: switching arches

Change in funeral tradition happens slowly. Change manifests itself not only in textual tradition. Cultural change is also reflected in the use of (new) forms. Text and form do not develop synchronously

3D model of Jewish Cemetery Mainz

Workshop: IBR/RiR

Sharing epigraphical Data

IIP Inscriptions of Israel | Palestine epidat Research Platform for Jewish Epigraphy DIO Deutsche Inschriften Online
online
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time 500 BCE - 640 CE midth 11th - 20th century 500-1650 CE
space Israel Palestine Germany Netherlands Czechia Lithuania Germany Austria South Tyrol
Genre Different Funeral Inscriptions Different
Example QUAMR0001 ffb-80 34-561
Format EpiDoc: TEI XML for Epigraphic Documents
PEACE Portal and DARIAH-DE

PEACE Portal

peacePortal_search
  • Data aggregation based on EpiDoc TEI XML
  • Search across all holdings
  • Cooperation with other repositories planned

Peace Portal: search

Genderdistribution in DIO und epidat

DIO 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200 EPI 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 550 0 1 2 9

Legende

1 male
2 female
0 unknown
9 not defined
Configuration
tobedone

Visualisierung http://app.rawgraphs.io

How to harvest epidat records?

epidat provides access to all collections and their resources of the epidat collection. Each <resource> is part of a <collection> which is part of all epidat-<collections>.

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one more thing …

books mentioned on stone

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Hamburg hha-1721, J. Katzenellenbogen
foto by B. Sommer

In the 18th and 19th centuries, it happens that epitaphs list books written by the deceased. From time to time, descendants also refer to books written by an ancestor. In the following list, about 50 books are listed with title, ID of the book in Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, ID of the tombstone, name (and link to the person entry) of the deceased (if applicable, role and further reference), as well as place and date of the tombstone.

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data structure

bookTitle
____hasReferenceToBibliographyOfHebrewBooks
________isMentionedOnEpidatObjectId
_________refersToEpidatPersonId

Search for footprints

A footprint is a record of the material presence of a literary work at a particular time and place, such as: an extant copy of an imprint a copy owned in the past whose whereabouts are unknown
bookTitle biblHebBookID mentionedOn headstoneFor place date
‎‏אספקלריא המאירה‏‎ 000137549 wrm-1199 Dov Beer Horowitz ben Jehuda Halevi
dateofdeath: 1755-07-24
role: descendant of author
Worms 1755
‎‏לוית חן‏‎ 000301960 hha-1674 Efraim ben Schmuel Sanwel Hekscher
dateofdeath: 1759-04-23
role: author
Hamburg 1759
‎‏‏‎ wrm-735 Menachem Manli ben Elieser Unna
dateofdeath: 1722-01-15
role: author
note: ‎‏מחבר ספרים אשר עדיין לא יצא‏‎
Worms 1722

see full index Bücher auf Grabmalen

funerary poetry - Dicta Nakdan

‎‏ג‎‏פה שוכבת הדרת הנשים‏‎
‎‏אף גם עדים וצבי תפארתם‏‎
‎‏גמלה חסד עם הרשים‏‎
‎‏לזמנה היתה כתר מכתם‏
‎

<lg><l>-Element from hha-1678

name
פאגל
rhyme
ABAC

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