In the ever-growing and evolving field of Digital Papyrology – intending
both the set of electronic tools for papyrological research and a new
way of representing our knowledge of the Greek papyri in digital
environments – a focal current issue is the digital critical edition of
the papyrus texts. Since new perspectives are emerging – involving
co-occurring phenomena like the scribal writing act, the materiality of
the writing medium, the linguistic background, which affect our global
comprehension of the papyri beyond the traditional dichotomy
text/context – scholars are increasingly feeling the limits of the
printed editions and of their simple digital reproductions. Several
projects are proposing new looks at the papyri as cultural artefacts,
implementing annotation layers adding valuable information to the very
texts. They mostly deal with linguistics, palaeography, documentary
typology, paging layout, material features, and attempt to integrate the
traditional editorial platform (Papyri.info) with new data clusters or
even new editorial platforms. The volume investigates and discusses such
new trends with the final goal of outlining the digital critical
edition of the Greek papyri as an interconnected network of information.
Publisher:De Gruyter
Copyright year:2025
Audience:Papyrologists, digital classicists, digital humanists, IT technicians working with the humanities
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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