Papyri.info

Available

• http://papyri.info/
  • Search: http://papyri.info/search (see also Papyrological Navigator)
  • Editor: http://papyri.info/editor (see also Papyrological Editor)

Director

• Joshua D. Sosin (Duke University)

Description

Contents and functionality

Papyri.info provides search and editing functionality for papyrological data aggregated under the Integrating Digital Papyrology project.

It collects and aggregates data from:

• Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS)
• Arabic Papyrology Database
• Bibliographie Papyrologique
• Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri
• Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens
• Trismegistos

Open Source Software

The core functionality is provided by the two open source tools:

• Papyrological Navigator (for display, browse and search features) — PN code at Github
• Papyrological Editor (editing and editorial workflow management) — SoSOL code at Github

Open Data

All data is also available under a Creative Commons Attribution license in the idp.data repository on GitHub. The Papyrological Editor on papyri.info is powered by SoSOL.

Reviews

• "Review of the Papyrological Editor of Papyri.info" by Despina Borcea, Stoa Review 2022.
• Papyri.info, Joshua Sosin (ed.), 2010. Reviewed by Lucia Vannini in RIDE 9 (2018).
• Review: Papyri.info: A Searchable Database of Papyri and Translations Online Reviewed by Michael Zellmann-Rohrer in Society for Classical Studies Digital Reviews (2018).
• Greek research tools: papyri.info Reviewed in the Library of Antiquity (2014).

Bibliography

• Ryan Baumann, 2013. "The Son of Suda Online." In The Digital Classicist 2013, BICS Supplement 122. Pp. 91–106. Available: http://hdl.handle.net/10161/8414
• Joshua Sosin, 2010. "Digital Papyrology." Stoa Review. Available: https://blog.stoa.org/archives/1263