simple-edep

A static, client-side EpiDoc editor for Roman/Latin epigraphy.

Encode inscriptions as EpiDoc/TEI XML in the browser with a live Leiden+ → EpiDoc editor, and commit them straight to GitHub with your own personal access token. No server, no database — just HTML, JavaScript, and the GitHub Contents API.

🔗 Live site: https://pleuston.github.io/simple-edep/

Modelled on the epiwen framework; the Leiden engine is jinn-codemirror (vendored, no CDN).

Features

• Live Leiden+ ↔ EpiDoc editor — type with Leiden conventions and get EpiDoc XML automatically; paste from EDCS or PHI and convert with one click.
• Full Roman EpiDoc form — object & support, dimensions and letter heights, layout & script, EDH text type, Roman dating (origDate), find spot with coordinates, apparatus, translation, commentary, bibliography, and cross-reference IDs (EDH, EDCS, EDR, Trismegistos, PHI, CIL).
• Save to GitHub — commits to records/*.xml via the Contents API using a personal access token stored only in your browser. Copy/Download for manual commits too.
• Catalogue — browse, search and re-edit (XML → form round-trip preserves the Leiden markup).
• Reading view & find-spot map — rendered text with Leiden display conventions; Leaflet map of find spots.

Project layout

Path	Contents
index.html	Landing page
login.html, auth.js	GitHub token sign-in / session gate
editor.html, app.js	Metadata form + the embedded Leiden editor
generator.js	Pure EpiDoc/TEI serializer (Node-requireable, unit-tested)
reading.js	EpiDoc → HTML reading renderer
catalog.html, catalog.js	Browse / search / round-trip into the editor
viewer.html	Reading view + facsimile image
map.html, map.js	Leaflet find-spot map
vocab.js	Controlled vocabularies (object types, materials, text types, …)
github.js, data.js	GitHub Contents API save / read
records/*.xml	The inscription records
data/records-index.json	Generated summary index (catalogue + map)
vendor/	jinn-codemirror bundle + tei.json, Leaflet
scripts/	make-seeds.js, build-index.js, test-generator.js

Develop locally

python3 -m http.server 8000   # then open http://localhost:8000/
node scripts/test-generator.js   # unit-test the serializer
node scripts/build-index.js      # rebuild data/records-index.json from records/

Saving

Sign in at login.html with a GitHub personal access token (public_repo scope). The editor's ② Save to GitHub commits the current record to records/. The token never leaves your browser except in the request to api.github.com.

Licence

Code: MIT. Records: CC BY 4.0 unless stated otherwise. jinn-codemirror is MIT (JinnTec GmbH).