epidat - epigraphical database | digital textarchives

Epidat - The Database of Jewish epigraphy - provides the inventory, documentation, editions and presentation of epigraphical collections. Currently online available are 166 digital editions with 30406 epitaphs (61067 image files).

Access options

There are several options for the screening of the files:

location-based - places, regions

• local - single file (in alphabetical order)
• regional - several files
• nationwide - all files

time-based | chronological

• 1050-1519 Middle Ages
• 1520-1789 early Modern Age
• 1789-1945 Modern Age
• 1945-1946 post war
• you can also define and extract from all files your own period of study based on the dated inscriptions

index-based

• indices show all files organised by subject

full-text-search

• full-text-search in edition and translation

imagebased

• indices of images in chronological order
• In the medium term, the large number of digitized images will be transferred into the public TextGrid repository in the best resolution possible. Some image files (BETA) have already been ingested into and issued out of the repository in epidat by using the digital Image Library digiLib as a tool to help users view and edit (see TGRep as a media server) the data.

map-based

note: We are happy to receive any indications of missing or poorly listed content

• All corpora can be selected via a scalable map
• regional maps
• In several files it is possible to trace the position of the headstones via a static sitemap
• In several files it is possible to navigate from headstone to headstone via an interactive sitemap, e.g. Willich-Anrath
• Files are accessible via an index of stone masons and artists involved, showing a List of Works and their Places of Activity

Visualization

• Dated headstones are visualized in the spatio-temporal interface of the DARIAH-DE Geobrowser
• Symbols on dated headstones are visualized in the spatio-temporal interface of the DARIAH-DE Geobrowser
• Three files ─ Bonn-Schwarzrheindorf, Hamburg-Altona and Dormagen ─ are accessible in the prototype of the Topographie-Visualizer (Hyperimage)
• Visualization of family relations

External Access options

• epidat-files are embedded in the Web-App Orte jüdischer Geschichte which is based on DARIAH-DE services.
• In close cooperation with Judaica Europeana and Athena Plus work has been done to transfer the epidat collection to europeana.
• Steinheim Institute is a cultural institution and participant at Coding Da Vinci, the first German cultural hackathon and provides the participants in the Hackathon with epidat records. A team developed the project poetic relief ─ ‎‏תבליט פיוטי‏‎.

Structure of the digital editions

• information
  The digital edition is usually preceded by an introduction that gives background information on names of the editors, on edition conventions, on sponsors, as well as on more publications
• full-text-search
  You can select a single digital edition or several regionally clustered corpora, as well as all corpora can be found using full-text-search
• inscriptions | epitaphs
  browse chronologically or choose a particular year
• indices
  
  • name lists
  • word forms
  • abbreviations
  • quotes
  • languages
  • lettershape
  • symbols
  • ornaments

• map
• sources | secondary literature