Dimitar Iliev has a PhD degree in Ancient Greek language and MA in Computer Linguistics and Humanities Computing from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria. He is the national coordinator for the contributions to DARIAH-EU in the Bulgarian CLaDA-BG Consortium (CLArin and DAria in BulGaria). He is the principal investigator of the Telamon Project, a collection of the Greek inscriptions from Bulgaria. His main research and teaching areas are Digital Epigraphy, EpiDoc and TEI XML, text alignment and bilingual text corpora, Greek and Romance Linguistics, Greek poetry (Homer, epigram) and literature of Late Antiquity (Palladas, St. Basil, etc.).
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The project’s main objectives are the thorough documentation, publication (in many cases, for the first time in English), and study of the (post-)Byzantine inscriptions accompanying church murals in today’s Bulgaria.
