A presentation for "Open Science Infrastructures for Big Cultural Data", Plovdiv, 13-15 Dec 2018 organized by UCL Qatar, Ivan Vazov National Library in Plovdiv and AzBuki Publishing House with the cooperation of DARIAH-EU

1. Telamon: the Digital
Corpus of the Greek
Inscriptions in Bulgaria
Dimitar Iliev
Department of Classics
St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia
Open Science Infrastructures for Big
Cultural Data, Plovdiv, 13-15 Dec 2018

2. Bulgaria’s classical Greek
epigraphic heritage
• Over 5000 Greek inscriptions;
• From 6 c. BCE;
• Published and unpublished.
The stele of Deines
(Apollonia, 6.-5. BCE)

3. Corpora

4. TELAMON’s electronic corpus
• From earliest times to 4. c. CE;
• Mainly from the regions of Philippopolis (Plovdiv) and
Augusta Traiana (Stara Zagora);
• Gradual expansion (North Bulgaria, Black Sea coast…) –
collaborations;
• EpiDoc XML.

5. The team
• Mirena Slavova, Nikolay Sharankov, Dimitar Iliev
• Polina Yordanova, Elina Boeva
• Dimitar Birov, Anastasios Papapostolou, Todor Antonov
• Betina Yaneva, Diana Zulcheva, Ivan Voykov
• …

6. Trainings and courses
• Optional course “Encoding of epigraphic monuments with XML”
at the Department of Classics;
• International trainings in EpiDoc and Digital Humanities (2013,
2015, 2016, 2017).
Alma Mater Centre of Excellence in
the Humanities

7. The template

8. Authority files

9. The EFES tool
• publishing XML
content;
• indexing and searching;
• international pilot
training in using EFES at
the University of Sofia
(30.10.-03.11. 2017 );
•EpiDoc/EFES training
for historians,
archaeologists and
librarians
https://github.com/EpiDoc/EFES

10. Perspectives - 1
CLaDA-BG
• documentation;
• controlled vocabularies;
• linking data to gazetteers, lexicons, prosopographies, etc.

11. https://github.com/DHLabUniSofia/Telamon-EFES

12. Perspectives - 2
• Latin inscriptions;
• Byzantine inscriptions;
• Ancient Bulgarian inscriptions;
• Ottoman inscriptions;
• Seals and coins…

13. Thank you!
diiliev@uni-sofia.bg
dimitar.illiev@gmail.com