EpiHorrea : Plateforme d’exploitation et de valorisation de données épigraphiques de l’Afrique du Nord antique
Within the framework of the HN MASA consortium (Memories of Archaeologists and Archaeological Sites), the Centre Camille Jullian (CCJ) has designed an online collaborative tool, EpiCherchell, for the study of the corpus of inscriptions from Caesarea in Mauretania (Cherchell, Algeria). In collaboration with the Archaeology and Philology of the East and West (AOROC) laboratory, the CCJ is also involved in the NAHAN project (North African Heritage Archives Network) for the dissemination and valorization of archives of North African archaeological sites preserved in a network of international institutions.
The EpiHorrea platform project is in line with and complementary to these two achievements: it proposes to reuse, transform and extend the EpiCherchell database into a collaborative and mutualized platform, which will allow the study and the exhibition of the epigraphic collections of the Roman cities of North Africa. It will constitute a large repository of epigraphic data that can be searched and rapidly made available to the scientific community. The epigraphic data will be linked to the NAHAN archives, forming a FAIR resources ecosystem, responding to the main principles of open science and likely to integrate the portal and the repositories of Biblissima.
