EDAG November 2024

Date: Tuesday November 19th, 16:30 BST = 17:30 CEST = 11:30 EDT = 18:30 EEST

Present: Federico Aurora (FA), Gabriel Bodard (GB), Hugh Cayless (HC), Martina Filosa (MF), Elli Mylonas (EMy), Nicolas Souchon (NS), Thomas Kollatz (TK)

Apologies: Nora White (NW), Alice Bencivenni (AB), Emmanuelle Morlock (EMo), Elina Boeva (EB), Scott DiGiulio (SJD), Chiara Cenati (CC)

Chair: NS

Agenda items:

• September & October minutes approved
• [MF] Chinese translation of EpiDoc Guidelines
• Chinese students propose to translate the EpiDoc Guidelines to chinese
• There's already a translation workflow that we can share with them
• MF to write to GB re. workflow and possible Japanese translation
• Including other Chinese projects? Others could work on validating the translation
• Discussion about other translations, handling the “See Also:” display, also how to manage updating existing and future translations.
• Updates will have to be reported to ensure that translations follow
• Markup list
• New Markup list (epidoc-markup@jiscmail.ac.uk)
• Archives transferred to JISCM@il
• Non-vacat space [ongoing] 
• Enable editors to distinguish between different types of space
• Adding examples in the markup list will allow us to make a choice 
• Restoration data [solved]
• Scribal enotikon (aka 'uniter'); breve; longum [ongoing]
• <hi> not quite right as <g>
• Difficult to link <g> with the part of the text it relates
• Using <g> will be easier to encode diacritic marks
• Discussion happening in SF issues: https://sourceforge.net/p/epidoc/feature-requests/172/
• EpiDoc FRs, Bugs, Pull Requests, EFES issues reminder
• EFES standing agenda item
• Training standing item
• DH/epigraphic conferences that EDAG might contribute to:

• Mycenaean Colloquium in Madrid, September 2025, abstract before 31 December 2024, common talk with EDAG members (FA, GB, EMy ?)
• DH2025 [Deadline December 1st, 2024] “Building access and accessibility, open science to all citizens”
• MF to convene a group of EDAG people to draft an abstract
• AOB
• [GB] Bluesky starter pack for epigraphy: https://go.bsky.app/PmuQYDH
• [GB] Bluesky starter pack for digital classics: https://go.bsky.app/3ZkX6k2
• Set meeting dates for Jan-Apr 2025

• GB will send a poll.