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**About papyri.info**
# About papyri.info

**Prototype**: Under leadership of Roger Bagnall and with funding from the [Andrew W. Mellon Foundation](http://www.mellon.org/) and the [National Endowment for the Humanities](http://www.neh.gov/), in 2006/07, [Columbia University Libraries](http://library.columbia.edu/) developed specifications for a 'Papyrological Navigator,' (PN) in order to demonstrate that multiple digital papyrological resources could be co-displayed in a scholarly web resource. In the following year a prototype PN was released. In 2007/08, with further support from the Mellon Foundation, a Duke-led team launched 'Integrating Digital Papyrology', whose three phases ran through 2012. The goals were to migrate the DDbDP from SGML to [TEI](http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml) [EpiDoc](http://sourceforge.net/p/epidoc/wiki/Home/) XML, and from betacode to Unicode; to map DDbDP texts and HGV metadata to corresponding APIS images and catalog records, and to convert both HGV and APIS data to EpiDoc; to enhance the Papyrological Navigator; to create a version controlled, transparent and auditable, multi-author, web-based, real-time, tag-lite, editing environment, which--in tandem with a new editorial infrastructure--would allow the entire community of papyrologists to take editorial control of core disciplinary data. In 2009 the new PN and Papyrological Editor (PE) were moved to [NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World](http://isaw.nyu.edu/), which was the seat of production until July 2013.
## Prototype

**Release**: In 2010 the new [papyri.info](http://papyri.info) was released to production (see [J. Sosin's presentation](http://www.stoa.org/archives/1263) to the 26th Intl Papyrological Congress), featuring the new PE and a completely redesigned PN.
Under leadership of Roger Bagnall and with funding from the [Andrew W. Mellon Foundation](http://www.mellon.org/) and the [National Endowment for the Humanities](http://www.neh.gov/), in 2006/07, [Columbia University Libraries](http://library.columbia.edu/) developed specifications for a 'Papyrological Navigator,' (PN) in order to demonstrate that multiple digital papyrological resources could be co-displayed in a scholarly web resource. In the following year a prototype PN was released. In 2007/08, with further support from the Mellon Foundation, a Duke-led team launched 'Integrating Digital Papyrology', whose three phases ran through 2012. The goals were to migrate the DDbDP from SGML to [TEI](http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml) [EpiDoc](http://sourceforge.net/p/epidoc/wiki/Home/) XML, and from betacode to Unicode; to map DDbDP texts and HGV metadata to corresponding APIS images and catalog records, and to convert both HGV and APIS data to EpiDoc; to enhance the Papyrological Navigator; to create a version controlled, transparent and auditable, multi-author, web-based, real-time, tag-lite, editing environment, which--in tandem with a new editorial infrastructure--would allow the entire community of papyrologists to take editorial control of core disciplinary data. In 2009 the new PN and Papyrological Editor (PE) were moved to [NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World](http://isaw.nyu.edu/), which was the seat of production until July 2013.

**Stewardship**: In July 2013 the [Duke University Libraries](http://library.duke.edu/), again with the generous support of the Mellon Foundation, launched the [Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing](http://blogs.library.duke.edu/dcthree/) (DC3), a digital classics unit embedded in the Libraries. A core part of their mission is the maintenance and enhancement of the [papyri.info](http://papyri.info) toolset and community.
## Release

**Moving Parts**: See the [top level data flow](https://github.com/papyri/documentation/blob/master/system_level/TopLevelDataFlow.md). The PN supports browse and faceted search of the constellation of papyri.info resources. It relies on an RDF triple store ([Apache Jena](http://jena.apache.org/)) to manage the relationships between documents from different sources and [Apache Solr](http://lucene.apache.org/solr/) for its search and faceting capabilities. The PE (1) allows users to add new or change existing 'publications' in the PN, edit the EpiDoc, either via database-style form (for APIS, HGV, BP) or proxy EpiDoc syntax called Leiden+ (for DDbDP), (2) enables submission of all such edits to peer review, which may result in commission of such to the canonical repository, and (3) provides transparent version-control (via git) of all such edits, system-wide. This bundle of services is referred to as Son of Suda on Line (SoSOL), in homage to the [Suda On Line](http://www.stoa.org/sol) project and our colleague [Ross Scaife](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Scaife).
In 2010 the new [papyri.info](http://papyri.info) was released to production (see [J. Sosin's presentation](http://www.stoa.org/archives/1263) to the 26th Intl Papyrological Congress), featuring the new PE and a completely redesigned PN.

## Stewardship

In July 2013 the [Duke University Libraries](http://library.duke.edu/), again with the generous support of the Mellon Foundation, launched the [Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing](http://blogs.library.duke.edu/dcthree/) (DC3), a digital classics unit embedded in the Libraries. A core part of their mission is the maintenance and enhancement of the [papyri.info](http://papyri.info) toolset and community.

## Moving Parts

See the [top level data flow](https://github.com/papyri/documentation/blob/master/system_level/TopLevelDataFlow.md). The PN supports browse and faceted search of the constellation of papyri.info resources. It relies on an RDF triple store ([Apache Jena](http://jena.apache.org/)) to manage the relationships between documents from different sources and [Apache Solr](http://lucene.apache.org/solr/) for its search and faceting capabilities. The PE (1) allows users to add new or change existing 'publications' in the PN, edit the EpiDoc, either via database-style form (for APIS, HGV, BP) or proxy EpiDoc syntax called Leiden+ (for DDbDP), (2) enables submission of all such edits to peer review, which may result in commission of such to the canonical repository, and (3) provides transparent version-control (via git) of all such edits, system-wide. This bundle of services is referred to as Son of Suda on Line (SoSOL), in homage to the [Suda On Line](http://www.stoa.org/sol) project and our colleague [Ross Scaife](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Scaife).
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# About APIS

**The Advanced Papyrological Information System** (APIS) was planned, starting in 1995, by Roger Bagnall, [†Traianos Gagos](https://record.umich.edu/articles/a1143-obituaries/), and [†John Oates](http://today.duke.edu/2006/06/oatesobit.html), representing Columbia University, the University of Michigan, and Duke University. Berkeley, Princeton, and Yale joined the effort soon after. The project was launched in 1996/7 with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the six original institutions. The goal was to create a collections-based repository of information about and images of papyrological materials (e.g., papyri, ostraca, wooden tablets, etc.) located in collections around the world; it was envisaged as a first stage in creating a comprehensive papyrological working environment online. A total of six NEH grants, along with institutional support, foundation grants, and private donations, sustained the development of APIS through 2013. At present it includes twelve full member institutions along with another fifteen collections that have contributed data, including some archaeological field projects. Its founding vision was more completely realized when it was systematically linked to the other resources in the Papyrological Navigator through the Integrating Digital Papyrology project, in several phases, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and directed by Joshua Sosin.

APIS contains physical descriptions, provenance, dating, and bibliographic information about these papyri and other written materials, as well as digital images and English translations of many of these texts. For many there is also information about the acquisition history of the objects. APIS includes both published and unpublished material in all languages. Generally, much more detailed information is available about the published texts. Unpublished papyri have often not yet been fully transcribed, and the information available is sometimes very basic. If you need more information about a papyrus, you should contact the appropriate person at the owning institution.
Active development and hosting of the APIS technical infrastructure was carried out at a number of APIS partner institutions over the period 1996-2013, principally Columbia University, the University of Michigan and New York University. As of 1 July 2013, the host and steward of canonical APIS data is papyri.info, which is served by the DC3 and Duke University Libraries.

The collections module, with a metadata record editor, of papyri.info is now open to all institutions, whether or not they are APIS members. Collections of any size may contribute catalog records, images, texts, translations, and metadata to papyri.info directly, once they establish an authorized editorial structure. Interested collections should contact dcthree AT duke DOT edu.
The collections module, with a metadata record editor, of papyri.info is now open to all institutions, whether or not they are APIS members. Collections of any size may contribute catalog records, images, texts, translations, and metadata to papyri.info directly, once they establish an authorized editorial structure. Interested collections should contact dcthree AT duke DOT edu.
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