Date: Tuesday 9th July 2019

Present: Gabriel Bodard (GB), Laura Löser (LL), Tom Elliott (TE), Scott Vanderbilt (SV), Elli Mylonas (EMy), Scott DiGiulio (SD)

Apologies: Polina Yordanova, Charlotte Tupman, Emmanuelle Morlock, Simona Stoyanova

Agenda items:

• Approve June minutes  - APPROVED

• Laura and Scott still need to fix a date for next release

• [X] LL will send Doodle to find date in September to Scott V, Gabby, Tom

• Report on Vienna epigraphy.info meeting from TE

• 30th May to 1st June

• Preceded by 3-day EpiDoc training (James Cowey and Tom Elliott)

• 50+ people, core ~25 people

• → build on epigraphy.info vision statement

• Short report forthcoming (longer report also, in the future)

• Next meeting: Hamburg February 2020

• “Epigraphy Party” in DC (January 2020) concurrent with north american meetings

• Working groups:

• Social media team for outreach

• Vocabularies and RDF (builds on Oxford Linked Epigraphy meeting)

• User profiles and scenarios

• Recommendations on handling of unpublished inscriptions

• Getting all existing project data online, in EpiDoc, under open license, with stable URIs

• The following committee members were elected to one-year terms: Andrea Mannocci (Pisa), Chiara Cenati (Vienna), Tom Elliott (New York), Cristina de la Escosura (Zaragosa), Tom Gheldof (Leuven), and Vincent Razanajao (Bordeaux).

• More things that will need to be thought about

• linking editions

• including linked open data rdf information, what, how… work on ontologies (GB: it seems often people prefer to pay more attention to other things and this keeps being neglected; or people believe this has already been done, but this is not correct)

• Update from GB and EMy on EpiDoc semester plans [deferred to August]

• Brainstorming ideas: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RouGl6LmhlB7jB_6S-yv6eq_sojpfG-Mo0t2aS_iM3Q/edit

• Rolling positions within EDAG

• Chairing

• secretarying/scheduling/messengering

• [X] Laura will send e-mail to group about new chairing volunteer