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
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