Monday March17 - 15:00 GMT = 16:00 CET = 11:00 EDT = 17:00 EET

Present: Federico Aurora (FA), Gabriel Bodard (GB), Chiara Cenati (CC), Martina Filosa (MF), Polina Yordanova (PY), Elli Mylonas (EMy), Thomas Kollatz (TKol)

Apologies: Alessio Sopracasa, Nicolas Suchon, Nora White, Hugh Cayless, Scott Vanderbilt

Chair: Federico Aurora

The EpiDoc Technical Group met this week for our monthly catch-up, chaired by Federico Aurora. We decided to send brief summaries of our discussion and work to EpiDoc-Markup henceforth. Discussion in March included some of the following points.

• Approved February minutes: (PY uploaded to EpiDoc Roadmap)

• Current chairs to compile information they needed when starting the chair term → for documentation

• Former chairs to change ownership of agendas created not by the EpiDoc Gmailaccount

• EpiDoc 9.7 was released last month. Many thanks to the release technicians Emmanuelle Morlock and Nicolas Souchon!

• [NS] Everything went well. We've spotted something in the XSLT and we'll be writing a ticket shortly.

• [GB] Last month we had a discussion of two recommendations for epigraphic encoding in Wikidata (IDEA and Altinum). Gabriel Bodard is convening a brief document reporting on our feedback.

• GB to set deadline for Wikidata feedback document - April 14, 2025

• [MF] Call for volunteers - Erasmus+ BIP "Intensive ENCODE: Digital Competences in Ancient Writing Cultures"

• [MF] Question: Does anyone have criteria to grade student assignments in EpiDoc/digital epigraphy and/or Leiden+/papyrological editor/digital papyrology? Does it make sense to establish some criteria (just like ENCODE have, e.g., sample syllabi)? We are looking for inspiration.

• Gabriel Bodard brought his digital classics assessment to our attention. Note that it often includes EpiDoc projects but is not specific to them. Instructions are at: tinyurl.com/DigiClass-assessment

• Others suggested not assessing just the markup itself, but requiring some degree of prose justification.

• Mike Sampson also replied on Markup:  when assessing Papyri.info encoding, workshops in stages with lots of feedback and justification.

• [MF/GB] We are discussing the encoding of ethical paradata in EpiDoc, including provenance, permissions, sensitivities with the intention of adding a page on this topic to the guidelines. The next step is to compile a few concrete examples of such metadata from inscriptions and papyri.

Standing items:

• Questions from the Markup list. Nothing to report.

• EpiDoc Feature Requests, Bugs, Pull Requests and EFES issues. Nothing to report.

• EFES developments. Nothing to report.

• Current Epigraphy - reminder to send any news (e.g. events, training, publications, projects) to Scott DiGiulio to post as EpiDoc contributions to the CurE blog.

• Training еvents.

• Erasmus+ BIP Intensive ENCODE: Digital Competences in Ancient Writing Cultures, April 7–May 5, 2025 (65 participants enrolled!).

• Dublin and Maynooth, May 26–28, 2025. Programme to be announced shortly.

• Conferences of Interest.

• Balisage 2025 (4–8 August 2025, fully online) - deadline 4 April 2025

• TEI 2025. (Krakow 16–20 September, 2025) - deadline April 21. 

• AOB

• Poll for May–July meetings: GB to do at beginning April

• Next calls:

• Monday, April 14 - 16:00 BST = 17:00 CEST = 11:00 EDT = 18:00 EEST (an hour later than previously scheduled, in order to allow members to volunteer for the ENCODE school)