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217 portal. Researchers <strong>in</strong> classics and computer science are work<strong>in</strong>g together on six subprojects (Büchler et al. 2008): 1. Atthidographers—This subproject will use text-m<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g methods to search through digital Greek corpora to try and discover previously unfound citations to and quotations of this group of annalistic and fragmentary Greek historians. 2. Reception of Plato’s texts <strong>in</strong> ancient world—A comb<strong>in</strong>ation of visualization and text-m<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g techniques will be used to discover and graph quotations and citations of Plato <strong>in</strong> ancient texts (Büchler and Geßner 2009). 3. The meter of Plautus—This subproject will use NLP techniques to perform metrical analysis on the texts of the Lat<strong>in</strong> poet Plautus (Deufert et al. 2010). 4. Knowledge map of the Early Modern Period—This subproject extends the work of MATEO, CAMENA, and Term<strong>in</strong>i, 655 a collection of Lat<strong>in</strong> books and tools, to analyze them from the early modern period, and will explore new research us<strong>in</strong>g co-occurrence analysis and text m<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g to track lexical changes over time from the ancient to modern world as well as to create semantic views of the corpora. 5. Epigraphical work—Extraction of templates for <strong>in</strong>scriptions. 6. Papyrology—This subproject will use text-m<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g techniques to provide text completion for distributed fragmentary collections. The eAQUA project sponsored a full-day workshop at the Digital Humanities 2010 conference on text m<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> the humanities. 656 eSAD—e-Science and Ancient Documents eSAD, 657 or “Image, Text, Interpretation: e-Science, Technology and Documents project” is us<strong>in</strong>g comput<strong>in</strong>g technologies to aid classicists and other scholars <strong>in</strong> read<strong>in</strong>g ancient documents. This fouryear project has been undertaken by the University of Oxford with <strong>in</strong>put from University College London and will conclude <strong>in</strong> 2011. eSAD has two major research projects: (1) creat<strong>in</strong>g tools to aid <strong>in</strong> the read<strong>in</strong>g of damaged texts such as stylus tablets at V<strong>in</strong>dolanda; and (2) discover<strong>in</strong>g how an Interpretation Support System (ISS) “can be used <strong>in</strong> the day-to-day read<strong>in</strong>g of ancient documents and keep track of how the documents are <strong>in</strong>terpreted and read.” This project has published extensively on their work, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g (de la Flor et al. 2010a, Olsen et al. 2009, Roued 2009, Roued-Cunliffe 2010, Tarte et al. 2009, Tarte 2011). Further discussion of these articles can be found <strong>in</strong> the Papyrology section. Integrat<strong>in</strong>g Digital Papyrology and Papyri.<strong>in</strong>fo Integrat<strong>in</strong>g Digital Papyrology (IDP) 658 was conceived <strong>in</strong> 2004–05, when the Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri (DDbDP) and the Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens (HGV) began “mapp<strong>in</strong>g their two largely overlapp<strong>in</strong>g data-sets—Greek texts and descriptive metadata, respectively—to each other.” In 2007, the Mellon Foundation provided 655 http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenahtdocs/camena.html 656 http://dh2010.cch.kcl.ac.uk/academic-programme/pre-conference-workshops/workshop-2.html 657 http://esad.classics.ox.ac.uk/ 658 http://idp.atlantides.org/trac/idp/wiki/
218 <strong>in</strong>itial fund<strong>in</strong>g (Sos<strong>in</strong> et al. 2007) to migrate DDbDP from SGML to EpiDoc and from betacode to Unicode Greek, to merge mapped DDbDP texts and HGV metadata <strong>in</strong> a s<strong>in</strong>gle XML stream, and then to map these texts to their APIS records, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g metadata and images. They also wished to create an enhanced papyrological navigator (PN) to support search<strong>in</strong>g of this newly merged and mapped data set. In October 2008, the Mellon Foundation funded IDP-2, a new, two-year project (Sos<strong>in</strong> et al. 2008), to “(1) improve operability of the PN search <strong>in</strong>terface on the merged and mapped data from the DDBDP, HGV, and APIS, (2) facilitate third-party use of the data and tools, (3) and create a version controlled, transparent and fully audited, multi-author, web-based, real-time, tagless, edit<strong>in</strong>g environment, which—<strong>in</strong> tandem with a new editorial <strong>in</strong>frastructure—will allow the entire community of papyrologists to take control of the process of populat<strong>in</strong>g these communal assets with data.” The goal of the IDP is to create an editorial <strong>in</strong>frastructure where papyrologists can make contributions to this <strong>in</strong>tegrated knowledge source. This edit<strong>in</strong>g environment SoSOL is now available onl<strong>in</strong>e. The project wiki provides extensive software descriptions and downloadable code. 659 The related papyri.<strong>in</strong>fo 660 website provides two major features: a list of l<strong>in</strong>ks to papyrological resources and “a customized search eng<strong>in</strong>e (called the Papyrological Navigator [PN]) capable of retriev<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>formation from multiple related sites.” The Papyrological Navigator currently retrieves and displays <strong>in</strong>formation from the APIS, DDbDP, and HGV. L<strong>in</strong>ks are also provided to Trismegistos texts, and the unique Trismegistos papyri numbers (TM number) have proved very important <strong>in</strong> the design of the PN (Sos<strong>in</strong> 2010). The goal of this project is to demonstrate “that a system can be designed to provide an <strong>in</strong>tegrated display of a variety of scholarly data sources relevant to the study of ancient texts.” This prototype uses portlet technology and a higher-resolution image display platform, and “moves beyond the creation of centralized “union databases,” such as APIS, to leverage and <strong>in</strong>tegrate content created and hosted elsewhere <strong>in</strong> the scholarly world.” A major research effort of this project is <strong>in</strong>vestigat<strong>in</strong>g the scalability of their approach, and they hope to design a system that will <strong>in</strong>clude and <strong>in</strong>tegrate data sources beyond the <strong>in</strong>itial ones <strong>in</strong> this project. A portlet platform was also chosen to support “personalization and profil<strong>in</strong>g” so scholars can use it efficiently <strong>in</strong> their research. A sample record 661 demonstrates the potential of this research by <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g the metadata for an <strong>in</strong>dividual papyrus (P.Oxy 4 744) from the APIS and HGV, with the full DDbDP transcription (with downloadable EpiDoc XML), an English translation (when available), and an image that can be focused <strong>in</strong> on <strong>in</strong> detail. More technical documentation can be found at the IDP website. 662 Interedition: An “Interoperable Supranational Infrastructure for Digital Editions” The Interedition Project 663 has the major goal of promot<strong>in</strong>g “<strong>in</strong>teroperability of the tools and methodology” used <strong>in</strong> the field of digital scholarly edit<strong>in</strong>g. As the project website notes, many scholars have already created “amaz<strong>in</strong>g computer tools” and the goal of Interedition is to facilitate contact between scholars and to encourage creators of such tools to make their functionality open and available to others. This project is funded as a European Union Cost Action from 2008 to 2012 and it will hold a series of meet<strong>in</strong>gs between researchers <strong>in</strong> the fields of digital literary research and IT to explore “the topic of a shared supranational networked <strong>in</strong>frastructure for digital scholarly edit<strong>in</strong>g and analysis.” At the end of 659 http://idp.atlantides.org/trac/idp/wiki/IDPSoftware 660 http://www.papyri.<strong>in</strong>fo/ 661 http://www.papyri.<strong>in</strong>fo/apis/toronto.apis.17/ 662 http://idp.atlantides.org/trac/idp/wiki/PapyrologicalNavigator 663 http://www.<strong>in</strong>teredition.eu/
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