Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri (DCLP)

• Applicant: Dr. Rodney Ast
• Subject Area: Greek and Latin Philology
• Term: from 2013 to 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 236701214

For Greek and Latin literature preserved in papyri developments on the digital front have been markedly slower than they have been for Greek and Latin documents, which can now be browsed, searched and edited at www.papyri.info. While there exist several important bibliographic resources for literary papyri and a handful of online corpora, there has been no attempt thus far to develop a unifying technical infrastructure on the model of papyri.info that would easily accommodate the wealth of surviving Greek and Latin literary texts, including adespota and subliterary papyri such as medical treatises, grammatical texts, etc. What our project aims to do is to create a technical framework for a large-scale corpus of literary papyri relying on the infrastructure already in place for documents. By project end, the NYU and Heidelberg teams, together with collaborators in Leuven and Würzburg, will offer a search and display interface customized to the specific needs of literary texts, plus a corpus of approximately 1100 searchable Greek and Latin papyri, including texts, translations and metadata. We will also have in place an online editorial system to allow ongoing, volunteer-driven content creation. The proposed collaboration is especially fitting because it brings together two teams, NYU and Heidelberg, with considerable previous experience working on the documentary tools available at papyri.info.

• DFG Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• International Connection: USA
• Participating Person: Professor Dr. Roger S. Bagnall