feat(frontend): add about page

frontend/src/lib/components/PageHeader.svelte

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 	<nav>
 		<BaseLink href="/" class="title">{config.title}</BaseLink>
 		<ul>
-			<li>About</li>
+			<li><BaseLink href="/about">About</BaseLink></li>
 			<li>Guide</li>
 			{#if debug}
 				<li><BaseLink href="/_qa">QA</BaseLink></li>

frontend/src/routes/about/+page.md

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+# About
+
+I.Sicily is a long-term project to construct and maintain a digital corpus of
+the inscriptions of ancient Sicily. The project aims to provide free open access
+data, and to follow the principles of Linked Open Data wherever possible.The
+online corpus, live since 2017, can be found at: <http://sicily.classics.ox.ac.uk>.
+
+The I.Sicily project aims to include all types of inscribed text, in all languages,
+across the whole of antiquity, beginning with the first written texts at the end
+of the seventh century BCE, and continuing through to the Byzantine period (currently
+with an approximate upper limit of the seventh century CE). The project began with a
+focus on texts on stone, and with an initial emphasis on the metadata (bibliography
+and information about the inscription, such as material, language and inscription
+type). Coverage has steadily expanded to include over 4,500 inscriptions, primarily
+on stone, some fully edited, most in draft. We are currently adding the remaining
+c.1,000 texts on stone (primarily material from the Syracuse museum and catacombs),
+and have started to incorporate texts on metal, ceramic and other instrumentum
+domesticum (portable objects). We plan to incorporate texts that were stamped onto
+brick and tile, and coin legends.
+
+I.Sicily employs the [EpiDoc TEI-XML standard](https://sourceforge.net/p/epidoc/wiki/Home/).
+We use this to encode all the information about the inscription and the inscribed
+object, as well as the actual text itself: we create a full edition of the
+inscription, but directly encoded in EpiDoc, which enables processing of all the
+information. These individual editions are published as HTML pages but can also be
+searched and filtered through the website, as well as being freely available for
+download. We also present high resolution images where available, and publish
+bibliography (in [Zotero](https://www.zotero.org/groups/382445/isicily/library))
+and collection information through a database of [Sicilian museums](http://sicily.classics.ox.ac.uk/museums).
+Data is standardised and made potentially interopable by means of the use of
+recognised vocabularies, such as the [Pleiades gazetteer of ancient
+vocabularies, such as the [Pleiades gazetteer of ancient
+places](https://pleiades.stoa.org/) and the [EAGLE epigraphic
+vocabularies](https://www.eagle-network.eu/resources/vocabularies/).