The Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts runs a project of digitisation of Roman Inscriptions from the territory of Serbia that is intended for publication in an open, digital archive encoded in EpiDoc TEI-XML. The project will go beyond digitising the existing editions as it sets out to prepare a new up-to-date corpus that is born digital and available in both English and Serbian. The work involves all traditional methods of the epigraphic discipline: research, documentation, critical edition and commentary, and it includes the methods of digital epigraphy, encoding editions in EpiDoc TEI-XML. The work on digitisation of epigraphic material was initiated in 2015–2016 within the framework of the project carried out by the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts supported by the Serbian Ministry of Culture and Information. The EpiDoc encoding of the inscriptions was done in the frameworks of a follow-up one-year project named "EpiDoc XML Encoding of Roman Inscriptions from Serbia: Digitization of Ancient Epigraphic Heritage" that was also funded by the Serbian Ministry of Culture and Information. The project has received financial support from the City of Belgrade, Secretariat for Culture for setting up the online database on the server. The current website is still a work in progress, and not all content is available online at the moment.
Browse the Inscriptions
The project is a work in progress. Currently, the collection includes Roman inscriptions from easternmost parts of the Roman province of Dalmatia, that lay in the territory the Republic of Serbia, namely the inscriptions from the territories of municipium Splonistarum and municipium Malvesiatium. The volume is prepared by Svetlana Loma who edited the inscriptions and Dragana Nikolić who encoded the editions in EpiDoc.
To browse the inscriptions go to Inscriptions.
The EFES Platform
The project uses the EpiDoc Front-End Services (EFES) platform for browsing and indexing the encoded inscriptions. EFES is a free, easy to use, highly customisable platform for the online publication of ancient texts in EpiDoc XML. It is developped in 2017-2018 by the team of experts (Gabriel Bodard, Jamie Norrish, Polina Yordanova, Simona Stoyanova). The documentation and User Guide for EFES can be found on the project's GitHub Wiki pages. Documentation for Kiln, the platform that EFES is based on, can be found both online, and in source form.