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Jeffrey B. Gibson
jgibson000 at mailhost.chi.edu
Sat Jan 22 11:24:41 EST 2000
I think the message below might be of interest to many B-Greeks.
Yours,
Jeffrey
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:47:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Traianos Gagos <traianos at umich.edu>
Cc: William Gosling <wgosling at umich.edu>, Linda Bennett <lbz at umich.edu>
Subject: University of Michigan Papyrus Collection
Dear colleagues: for the past three years Dr. Paul Heilporn has been
working tirelessly on our portion of the Advanced Papyrological
Information System (APIS) at the University of Michigan. As a result of
his work, our collection now offers the largest number of cataloged
fully
cataloged papyri with translation (even for texts that were originally
published untranslated). To date 2,382 fully cataloged texts are
available
for open-text, simple or boolean searches through our website. Of these
texts, ca. 1,750 come with digital images at a variable level of
resolution from thumbnails to 600 dpi.
Recently, we added a new feature: for ca. 1,200 of our documentary
texts we provide a link to the Greek text of the Duke Data Bank of
Documentary Papyri (DDBDP) which now resides at the Perseus server. This
link, when available, appears imeediately after the translation.
Several other long overdue changes have taken place, mostly thanks
to the work of our undergraduate assistants, Adam Hyatt and Brittany
Mullins. The section of "useful tools" is now much more user-friendly
and
fully updated. We will be adding new tools and resources as they appear
on
the web. Last summer we completed our "Online Tour" which is intended
for
K-12 students and the general public.
An important resource for K-12 and undergraduate students, can be
found in our section "What's new" (last item in the list there). We have
fully indexed and marked up our entire on-line database according to
10 general subjects such as "Administration and Law" or "Literature and
Education" which are then analyzed into more specific subjects such
"Administration, Census/Cadastre, Liturgies, Punishment and Prison" or
"Comedy and Tragedy, elegy, Epic, History, Illiteracy". Each subject and
sub-category is followed by a brief explanation. As these have been
created by undergraduate students are bound to contain some
inaccuracies.
Please, bear with us; we will be fixing them. Each sub-category
eventaully
leads to the relevant texts availabe through our APIS database.
In the next couple of weeks we will also make available the first
marked up articles with links to relevant documents. These are little
known or old articles based on materials primarily from the Michigan
Papyrus Collection.
Our HomePage can found at:
www.lib.umich.edu
Please, feel free to share this message with other interested
groups or forward it to other electronic lists. This posting is done
exclusively on the "papy" list.
I should note that the APIS project is taking place through the
generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Additional funding at the University of Michigan has been generously
provided by the Graduate Library and the continuous support of our
donor,
Mr. Ralph Conger.
Greetings from snowy and freezing Ann Arbor.
Traianos Gagos
Archivist of Papyrology,
Associate Professor of Greek and Papyrology,
Research Associate (Kelsey Museum of Archaeology), and
Vice President, American Society of Papyrologists
The University of Michigan, The University of Michigan,
Papyrology Rooms, Department of Classical Studies,
807 HHGL-S, 2160 Angell Hall,
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205 Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1432
Tel. (734) 764-9369 Tel. (734) 764-0360
Fax (734) 763-5080 Fax (734) 763-4959
traianos at umich.edu
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