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Epidat - Epigraphical Database

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Description

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Epidat is an epigraphical database of the Steinheim institute for jewish tombstones in Germany. It serves as inventory, for documentation, edition and for presentation of epigraphical data. Currently, there are 228 digital editions with 39,998 tombstones (79,698 image files) online accessible. The archive in development and maintenance by Thomas Kollatz.
dcterms:description
Epidat is an epigraphical database of the [Steinheim institute](http://www.steinheim-institut.de) for jewish tombstones in Germany. It serves as inventory, for documentation, edition and for presentation of epigraphical data. Currently, there are 228 digital editions with 39,998…
Epidat is an epigraphical database of the [Steinheim institute](http://www.steinheim-institut.de) for jewish tombstones in Germany. It serves as inventory, for documentation, edition and for presentation of epigraphical data. Currently, there are 228 digital editions with 39,998 tombstones (79,698 image files) online accessible. The archive in development and maintenance by Thomas Kollatz. Epidat is a research platform for jewish tombstone epigraphy in Germany. The database for jewish tombstone epigraphy serves as inventory, for documentation, edition and for presentation of epigraphical data. There are 249 digital editions with 46,257 tombstones (83,126 image files) online accessible as digital edition. Not accessible are 1479 datasets for tombstones which have been erected after the year 1952. Since March 2019 epidat is being developed continuously as scientific research cooperation between the Salomon-Ludwig-Steinheim-Institute, Essen and the Academy of Science and Literature, Mainz. Currently, there are two options to access the tombstones, inscriptions, person data and extensive image material which are edited in epidat. One option is the web interface which has not bein changed since 2006. Parallel an epidat BETA version is being developed, with new features, bilingual menus and optimized for mobile devices.
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epidat
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Epidat - Epigraphical Database
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http://data.judaicalink.org/data/epidat/
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http://www.steinheim-institut.de/wiki/index.php/Epidat
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hha-2512-1

datasets/epidat/2026-10-12

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Made again from the TEI files of Epidat's research data repository (commit 61046f3): one resource per Epidat person, IRIs from the person id; the name IRIs of 2023-07-14 are replaced by the persons they described.
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416724
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2026-10-12
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datasets/epidat/2026-10-12/generation

datasets/epidat/2026-10-12/generation

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2023-07-14: 29,418 IRIs; 26,488 replaced by one person, 2,615 by several, 315 by none; 451 of its person ids are not in the TEI files (cemeteries gre, kal, l10, mue, nie, ora, tol: Epidat answers 'not yet published').
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304 persons without a name, 77 GND links.
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48,041 TEI files, 41,378 persons in 268 cemeteries; 30 files repaired, 8 with only the person list parsed, 25 not parsed (no person list).
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Input not published (inputs:epidat/data-2026-08-13, 1 file, 25,403,942 bytes; named by checksum in the run record): Epidat research data (TEI/EpiDoc and cemetery table), commit 61046f3. The research data repository of Epidat (Steinheim-Institut), named as the harvesting interface…
Input not published (inputs:epidat/data-2026-08-13, 1 file, 25,403,942 bytes; named by checksum in the run record): Epidat research data (TEI/EpiDoc and cemetery table), commit 61046f3. The research data repository of Epidat (Steinheim-Institut), named as the harvesting interface by https://www.steinheim-institut.de/cgi-bin/epidat?info=howtoharvest, at commit 61046f34c3e9e898bfc0c43d27cde8dd6abbd28d (2026-08-13). epidat-tei.tar.gz is the GitLab repository archive of the folder xml/tei at that commit (api/v4/projects/49332/repository/archive.tar.gz?sha=61046f34c3e9e898bfc0c43d27cde8dd6abbd28d&path=xml/tei, downloaded 2026-10-12): 48,041 EpiDoc TEI files, one per gravestone, in 268 cemetery folders; 63 are not well-formed XML. epidat-metadata.tsv is tsv/epidat-metadata.tsv at that commit: 603 cemeteries with code, name, country, coordinates, TGN and GeoNames numbers. Licence CC BY 4.0 (stated in every TEI file). Origin: https://gitlab.rlp.net/epidat/data/-/tree/61046f34c3e9e898bfc0c43d27cde8dd6abbd28d
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Metadata of this version (this file).
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