Integrating Digital Papyrology

• Host: Duke University
• Other institutions involved:
  • University of Heidelberg
  • New York University
  • King's College London
  • Columbia University
  • University of Kentucky
• URL: http://papyri.info/

Description: A digital corpus of 55 000 (mostly Greek) papyrological texts (from the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) aggregated with 65000 metadata records (from the Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens). Texts are from the Ptolemaic, Roman, and Byzantine periods, and are delivered through the Papyrological Navigator (http://papyri.info/). A user-friendly tags-free interface for authoring and editing the TEI content and controlling the workflow is in use by hundreds of users worldwide: http://papyri.info/editor/.

Implementation description: Texts and metadata are encoded according to the EpiDoc Guidelines for encoding ancient epigraphical and papyrological texts in TEI (http://epidoc.sf.net/).

Other Related Resources: EpiDoc Guidelines: http://www.stoa.org/epidoc/gl/dev/; Joshua Sosin, 2010, "Digital Papyrology", Congress of the International Association of Papyrologists, 19 August 2010, Geneva. Available: http://www.stoa.org/archives/1263.

Access : Texts and TEI XML published under Creative Commons Attribution license

Contact:

Professor Joshua Sosin

Department of Classics

Duke University

Email: josh.sosin@duke.edu