Full DescriptionAdvanced Papyrological Information System (APIS): Columbia University |
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| Title: | Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS): Columbia University |
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http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/projects/digital/apis/ 
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| Description: |
APIS is a collections-based repository hosting information about and images of papyrological materials (e.g. papyri, ostraca, wood tablets, etc) located in collections around the world. It contains physical descriptions and bibliographic information about the papyri and other written materials, as well as digital images and English translations of many of these texts. When possible, links are also provided to the original language texts (e.g. through the Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri). The user can move back and forth among text, translation, bibliography, description, and image. With the specially-developed APIS Search System many different types of complex searches can be carried out. The APIS project, for which Columbia is currently the technology host, completed its Phase III in March 2003 and was funded by NEH for and additional two-year grant beginning in July. At the end of Phase II, there were approximately 19,00 metadata records, some 3,400 of which have translations, and 16,000 unique digital images. Phase III brought two new papyrus collections into APIS (U. of Toronto and Washington University). It also included a complete rewrite of the APIS search and retrieval application and a migration of the database to a new, more current metadata platform using Columbia's Master Metadata File version 2. |
| GEM Subjects: | |
| Subjects: | Papyri. |
| DLF-specific Subjects: | Classical Studies |
| Geographic Coverage: |
Africa (continent) Asia (continent) |
| Time Period: | Ancient (3300BCE-467CE) |
| Objects Represented: |
Physical artifacts Papyri |
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image/jpeg image/tiff |
| Interaction with Collection: |
Search Browse |
| Size: | 5735 |
| Frequency of additions: | Irregularly |
| This Record Last Updated By: | khage@umich.edu |
| This Record Last Updated On: | 10/12/2007 12:32:53 PM |
| Hosting Institution: | Columbia University |
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| Title: | Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS): University of Michigan |
| URL: |
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/
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| Description: |
The APIS project constitutes the efforts of papyrologists at a number of American universities to integrate in a "virtual" library the holdings from their collections (and collections that might want to follow in the future) through digital imag es and detailed catalog records that will provide information pertaining to the external and the internal characteristics of each papyrus, corrections to previously published papyri, and republications. Between 1991 and 1995, developments in digital image capturing and the growth of the Internet attracted the attention of papyrologists. The Michigan Papyrus Collection led the way in establishing the digitization project hoping that other universities would follow suit in making their collections available on the World Wide Web through digital images and catalog records. |
| Hosting Institution: | University of Michigan |
| Title: | Princeton University Library Papyrus Home Page |
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http://www.princeton.edu/papyrus/
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| Description: |
This home page, including a descriptive and digital images of selected Princeton Papyri and is presented as part of the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS) Project, which was made possible through grant support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The APIS project is a collaborative one involving Princeton University, Columbia University, Duke University, University of California at Berkeley, University of Michigan, and Yale University. Provides information about the collections of papyri housed in the Manuscripts Division of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections in the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library of Princeton University in New Jersey. Contains a descriptive inventory and digital images. |
| Hosting Institution: | Princeton University |
| Title: | The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri |
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http://tebtunis.berkeley.edu/
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| Description: |
The Tebtunis Papyri consist of the papyrus documents that were found in the winter of 1899/1900 at the site of ancient Tebtunis, Egypt. The expedition to Tebtunis, led by the British archaeologists Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt, was financed for the University of California by Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst. This web site, which is still under development will provide electronic access to the images of the Tebtunis Papyri as well as textual information This site provides access to records and images of the Tebtunis Papyri which are papyrus documents that were found in the winter of 1899/1900 at the site of ancient Tebtunis, Egypt.Presents the Tebtunis Papyri Collection and the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS) Project at the Bancroft Library of the University of California at Berkeley. Explains that the Tebtunis Papyri consist of the papyrus documents that were found in the winter of 1899/1900 at the site of ancient Tebtunis, Egypt. |
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UC Regents, c1997- This web site was created by Arthur Verhoogt, member of the Papyrological Institute of the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, in 1997-1998 on loan to the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS) at the Bancroft Library, Berkeley. |
| Hosting Institution: | University of California at Berkeley |
| Title: | The Yale Papyrus Collection |
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http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/papyrus/
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| Description: | As part of the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS) project, the Beinecke Papyrology Database describes papyri held in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and includes many images. Over the last year, 5800 papyri have been scanned for this database. |
| Hosting Institution: | Yale University |
| Projects Associated with Digital Collection | |
| There are no Projects associated with this collection. | |