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From Fragmented Data to Linked History: Developing the FAIR Epigraphic Vocabularies

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|Dec 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.428 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Submitted on: Oct 27, 2025
Accepted on: Nov 25, 2025
Published on: Dec 17, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
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