EDAG April 2024 call agenda

Date: Friday April 26th, 16:00 BST = 17:00 CEST = 11:00 EDT

Present: Federico Aurora (FA), Gabriel Bodard (GB), Chiara Cenati (CC), Thomas Kollatz (TK), Elli Mylonas (EMy), Nicolas Souchon (NS), Nora White (NW)

Apologies: Martina Filosa, Caroline Barron, Alice Bencivenni, Alessio Sopracasa

Chair: NW

Post meeting minute cleanup: FA

Agenda items:

• Approve March minutes
  

• EpiDoc 9.6 has been released! Here: https://sourceforge.net/p/epidoc/wiki/LatestRelease/

• Revised ReleaseProc: https://sourceforge.net/p/epidoc/wiki/ReleaseProc/

• We tried to make it more transparent and explanatory as well as just step-by-step instructions (e.g. to prevent errors with unnecessary push to branch in the last release!)

• How to deal with EFES releases? (MF/GB)

• decide on automatic submodule pull from Stylesheets branch to EFES subdirectory

• documents need to be customized outside of Stylesheets folder if the project is not aligned to EpiDoc

• (link to ongoing discussion about project parameterisation in EpiDoc Reference Stylesheets)

• EFES release should be tested a week before release, alongside everything else. (We are not sure if one can submodule-pull into a branch?)

• Etruscan EpiDoc (Annie Burnham, Swedish School Rome) (GB)

• USEP has been asked to provide feedback on EpiDoc markup for brick stamps (EMy)

• FAIRepigraphy https://github.com/FAIR-epigraphy  is offering guidelines work on vocabs/alignments (GB)

• Rationalize ontologies and thesauri for epigraphy (cf. EpiVoc)

• Standing items:

• Markup list

• Discussed the “Acrostics” issue (raised by CC)

• and EpiDoc FRs, Bugs, Pull Requests, EFES issues reminder

• EFES standing agenda item

• nothing to discuss

• Training standing item

• Vienna May 7-11 (CC)

• Foggia/Lecce?

• Online EpiDoc workshop, Sept 2024 (GB)

• Dublin/Maynooth (NW/GB)

• Oslo workshop (November?) (FA)

• Current epigraphy

• Associate editor to be appointed

• Events, training, new publications

• New EpiDoc projects

• DH/epigraphic conferences that EDAG might contribute to

• In the interim: send news (events, training, projects, publications) to Gabby for Cur.E.