Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS)

Available

 * Project: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/projects/digital/apis/ (Dead link)
 * About APIS (archive from 2012): https://web.archive.org/web/20121222011708/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/projects/digital/apis/about.html
 * Michigan's APIS: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis
 * Content in Papyrological Navigator: http://papyri.info/apis

Founders

 * Roger Bagnall
 * Traianos Gagos
 * John Oates

Description
The Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS) is a collections-based databank hosting images and metadata pertaining to inscribed papyrological materials largely from ancient Egypt. Objects date from the first half of the 2nd millenium BCE to the medieval period and include papyri, ostraca, paper, parchment, and tablets (bronze, lead, wood, and wax) inscribed in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Arabic and other languages. The project hosts ca. 25,000 records and 15,000 images from 21 collections around the world.

Publications and references

 * Traianos Gagos. 1997. “ Advanced papyrological information system (APIS): the Michigan experience.” Literary and Linguistic Computing 12.3: 155–58.
 * Roger Bagnall and Traianos Gagos. 2007. “The Advanced Papyrological Information System: Past, Present, and Future.” Proceedings of the 24th International Congress of Papyrology (Helsinki, 1–7 August 2004), vol I. Edited by J. Frösén, T. Purola, E. Salmenkivi. Helsinki. Pp. 59–74.
 * Nicola Reggiani. 2017. Digital Papyrology I: Methods, Tools and Trends. Pp. 92–98. De Gruyter. Available: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110547474