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145 provides access to a variety of other major resources, 486 and l<strong>in</strong>ks to Trismegistos texts have recently become available through the Papyrological Navigator. Of the four databases that are federated through Trismegistos, the HGV is the largest, and it is a participat<strong>in</strong>g partner <strong>in</strong> the APIS and the IDP projects as well as LaQuAT. First funded <strong>in</strong> 1988, this database <strong>in</strong>cludes extensive metadata 487 on almost all Greek and Lat<strong>in</strong> documentary papyri and ostraca from Egypt and nearby areas that have appeared <strong>in</strong> more than 500 pr<strong>in</strong>t publications. 488 The metadata <strong>in</strong> the HGV describe the papyri found <strong>in</strong> many other papyri collections, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g many of those found with<strong>in</strong> the APIS and <strong>in</strong> particular the DDbDP. The current database <strong>in</strong>cludes 56,100 records (though each record is not for a unique papyrus) s<strong>in</strong>ce records/metadata for many <strong>in</strong>dividual papyrus have been published <strong>in</strong> separate collections and thus there are often several metadata records for the same papyrus. The database is based on FileMaker, and for users unfamiliar with this commercial database, search<strong>in</strong>g the HGV requires referr<strong>in</strong>g to the specific database documentation. The user can also browse an alphabetical list of texts, and the record for each papyrus <strong>in</strong>cludes details of its publication and l<strong>in</strong>ks to the full text when available <strong>in</strong> both the Perseus and papyri.<strong>in</strong>fo implementations of the DDbDP. Another database federated through Trismegistos but that also ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong>s a separate website for its database is the Arabic Papyrology Database (APD), a project created by the International Society for Arabic Papyrology. The APD allows users to search for Arabic documents on papyrus, parchment, and paper from the seventh through the sixteenth centuries AD. The website notes that although there are more than 150,000 Arabic documents conserved on papyrus and paper, only a small number of them have been published and extensively studied. 489 The APD provides access to about 850 (out of 2,000) Arabic texts and is the first electronic compilation of Arabic papyri. Both simple and advanced search<strong>in</strong>g options are available, and the APD supports lemmatized search<strong>in</strong>g of the papyri text and a full search of the metadata. The collection of papyri can also be browsed by name, metadata, or references. Each papyrus record <strong>in</strong>cludes full publication metadata, the full Arabic text (<strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g variant read<strong>in</strong>gs and apparatus), a transcription, and relevant lexicon entries for words. The third database federated through Trismegistos with a significant separate web presence is the Brussels Coptic Database (BCD), a database of Coptic documentary texts that was started <strong>in</strong> 2000 and is currently ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong>ed by Ala<strong>in</strong> Delattre of the Centre de Papyrologie et d'Épigraphie Grecque of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. The BCD used the HGV as its <strong>in</strong>itial model and now provides access to about 6,700 Coptic texts that have been previously published. The search <strong>in</strong>terface supports multiple fielded keyword search<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> French <strong>in</strong> the follow<strong>in</strong>g fields: sigla, <strong>in</strong>ventory number, material, orig<strong>in</strong>, date, dialect, content, bibliography, varia, and text ID. Although the website <strong>in</strong>dicates plans to provide access to the full text of documents, currently most of the database is limited to metadata regard<strong>in</strong>g the papyri. 486 These <strong>in</strong>clude a database of collections of papyrological and epigraphic texts (http://www.trismegistos.org/coll/<strong>in</strong>dex.php) created by the Leuven Homepage of Papyrus Collections and the project Multil<strong>in</strong>gualism and Multiculturalism <strong>in</strong> Graeco-Roman Egypt, a list of papyri archives <strong>in</strong> Graeco- Roman Egypt (http://www.trismegistos.org/arch/<strong>in</strong>dex.php), the Prosopographia Ptolemaica (http://ldab.arts.kuleuven.be/prosptol/<strong>in</strong>dex.html), and a database of place names (http://www.trismegistos.org/geo/<strong>in</strong>dex.php). 487 Another significant database of papyrological metadata is the Mertens-Pack 3 database (http://www2.ulg.ac.be/facphl/services/cedopal/pages/mp3anglais.htm), which provides a catalog of <strong>in</strong>formation and bibliographic details on approximately 6000 Greek and Lat<strong>in</strong> literary papyri. 488 http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~gv0/Liste_der_Publikationen.html (though a number of journal publications have not been covered). 489 A full list of published texts from which papyri have been taken can be found here at http://orientw.uzh.ch/apd/requisits3a.jsp
146 The f<strong>in</strong>al major separate resource federated through Trismegistos is the “Catalogue of Paraliterary Papyri (CPP),” 490 a research project sponsored by the Onderzoeksraad K.U. Leuven and directed by Marc Huys. This electronic catalog of paraliterary papyri “conta<strong>in</strong>s descriptions of Greek papyri and other written materials which, because of their paraliterary character, cannot be found <strong>in</strong> the standard electronic corpora of literary and documentary papyri, the Thesaurus L<strong>in</strong>guae Graecae (TLG) and the Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri (DDBDP),” mak<strong>in</strong>g it very difficult for all but the specialist to f<strong>in</strong>d them. These paraliterary papyri have typically been published <strong>in</strong> various editions, and the CPP has sought to create a unified collection of these materials. The CPP <strong>in</strong>cludes digital versions of fulltext editions of the paraliterary fragments (<strong>in</strong> both beta code and Unicode). All papyri have been encoded <strong>in</strong> TEI-XML but are presented onl<strong>in</strong>e <strong>in</strong> HTML. One of the more unique papyrology projects is the V<strong>in</strong>dolanda Tablets Onl<strong>in</strong>e, 491 a digital collection that provides access to the onl<strong>in</strong>e edition of the V<strong>in</strong>dolanda writ<strong>in</strong>g tablets that were “excavated from the Roman fort at V<strong>in</strong>dolanda <strong>in</strong> northern England.” This website <strong>in</strong>cludes searchable editions of volumes 1 and 2 of the tablets, an <strong>in</strong>troduction, the archaeological and historical context, and a reference guide. This website received fund<strong>in</strong>g through the Mellon Foundation as part of the “Script, Image, and the Culture of Writ<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> the Ancient World” program and was created through the collaboration of the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (CSAD) 492 and the Academic Comput<strong>in</strong>g Development Team 493 at Oxford University. The collection of V<strong>in</strong>dolanda tablets can be browsed or searched, and the user can search for Lat<strong>in</strong> text specifically or do a general text search with<strong>in</strong> the tablet description or English translation (when available). The tablets database can also be browsed by different categories, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g “highlights,” tablet number, subject, category, type, people, places, military terms, and archaeological context. The record for each tablet <strong>in</strong>cludes an image that can be viewed <strong>in</strong> great detail through a special viewer and also provides a transcription (with notes and commentary by l<strong>in</strong>e). Another particularly useful feature is the “pr<strong>in</strong>t friendly tablet display” that provides a pr<strong>in</strong>table page of all the tablet <strong>in</strong>formation. 494 Each tablet has been encoded as a separate EpiDoc XML file, and the custom EpiDoc DTD, the V<strong>in</strong>dolanda XSL style sheet, and the entire corpus of <strong>in</strong>scriptions can be downloaded. 495 As has been illustrated above, representations of an <strong>in</strong>dividual papyrus can often be found <strong>in</strong> various databases and the amount of <strong>in</strong>formation available (metadata, images, transcriptions, translations, etc.) can vary significantly between them. 496 The numerous challenges of <strong>in</strong>tegrat<strong>in</strong>g such collections are explored <strong>in</strong> depth <strong>in</strong> the next section. Integrat<strong>in</strong>g Digital Collections of Papyri and Digital Infrastructure Papyrology is such an important discipl<strong>in</strong>e with the field of classics that a number of the major digital classics research projects, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g Concordia, eAQUA, eSAD, IDP, and LaQuAT, have a papyrology 490 http://cpp.arts.kuleuven.be/<strong>in</strong>dex.php 491 http://v<strong>in</strong>dolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/ 492 http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/ 493 http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/acdt/ 494 For example, see http://v<strong>in</strong>dolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/4DL<strong>in</strong>k2/4DACTION/WebRequestQuerysearchTerm=128&searchField=pr<strong>in</strong>tFriendly&searchType=number&pr<strong>in</strong>tImag e=yes&pr<strong>in</strong>tCommentary=yes&pr<strong>in</strong>tNotes=yes&pr<strong>in</strong>tLat<strong>in</strong>=yes&pr<strong>in</strong>tEnglish=yes 495 http://v<strong>in</strong>dolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/tablets/TVdigital-1.shtml 496 For example, records for the papyri <strong>in</strong> one important collection such as the Oxyrhynchus papyri (POxy) can be found <strong>in</strong> APIS, HGV, and Trismegistos, and the full text of many of the documents can be found <strong>in</strong> the DDbDP. POxy also has a descriptive website (http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/POxy/) and an onl<strong>in</strong>e database http://163.1.169.40/cgi-b<strong>in</strong>/librarysite=localhost&a=p&p=about&c=POxy&ct=0&l=en&w=utf-8. This database allows the papyri to be searched as well as browsed by papyrus number, author, title, genre, data, or volume number. Individual papyrus records <strong>in</strong>clude a l<strong>in</strong>k to a papyrus image that is password protected.
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