Between harmonization and peculiarities of scientific domains : Digitizing the epigraphic heritage of pre-Islamic Arabia in the project DASI

DASI is an ERC-Advanced Grant project aimed at digitizing the pre-Islamic inscriptions from Arabia and fostering best practices for the digitiza-tion of the epigraphic heritage related to Semitic languages. This paper de-scribes the content model, the standards chosen, and exemplifies the vocabu-laries in view of a possible harmonization of data pertaining to the specific domain. The architecture of the system and the tools for encoding and retrieving textual content are also illustrate