Dear Rodney,Every time I've tried to access the PN via Firefox and IE I got an errormessage concerning the server; I'm definite it's not something in myconnection/computer. Any idea what is the problem? ThanksMagdy AlyPapyrologistMansoura UniversityClassics DepartmentFaculty of Artshttp://mansvu.mans.edu.eg/sitegen/staff/long/index.php?did=349
> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:40:56 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: > [PAPY] Fw: New Papyrological Navigator (DDBDP-HGV-APIS)> To: > [email protected]> > ----- Original Message -----> From: "Joshua D. > Sosin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 12:30 PM> Subject: > New Papyrological Navigator (DDBDP-HGV-APIS)> > > Dear Colleagues:> > We > write to announce in the attached document (a) the launch of the beta> > release of the newly enhanced Papyrological Navigator (PN:> > http://www.papyri.info), a new user interface for accessing the DDBDP,> APIS, > and HGV, and (b) our recent receipt of a grant from the Andrew W.> Mellon > Foundation, to support further work on the newly merged> DDBDP-HGV-APIS > data.> > The PN aims to provide access to multiple online papyrological > resources> from a single simple interface. It's development has been funded > by the> Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (through awards to Roger Bagnall and to > a> consortial effort by DDBDP, HGV, and APIS). We hope and expect that its> > functionality will grow in depth (providing increasingly powerful search> > operations) and breadth (providing access to an increasing array of> > materials, whether papyrological or not). Some efforts in this direction> are > already moving forward under APIS VI> > (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/projects/digital/apis/index.html) and> > Concordia (http://concordia.atlantides.org).> > As we say, this is a beta > release. Over the next two weeks, users are> invited and encouraged to test > the PN and to send comments to> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Immediately following this > period, we shall> try to address the most critical concerns. Beyond that > time, suggestions> will be added to the regular work-flow, and made visible > via a comments> page, which we shall announce to the papylist (more details > in the> attachment).> > It is a fundamental principle of PN development that > the interface does> not *own* data, but rather aggregates it. It now can be > used to search> and display metadata and translations from the HGV, Greek and > Latin> texts from the DDBDP, and metadata, images, and translations from > APIS.> Moreover, in many thousands of cases it is able to correctly > aggregate> corresponding objects across the three data sets; to display DDBDP > text> alongside APIS images, alongside HGV metadata, alongside translations> > from HGV or APIS; the PN display also provides links out to the> databases > home sites. It is also aware of Trismegistos correspondences> and will soon > be able to surface links out to that resource as well.> > From the practical > perspective of the papyrological community the PN> (a) replaces the aged > Perseus interface for the DDBDP, (b) adds> functionality to the old APIS > interface, and (c) provides a single view> of HGV metadata and translations; > all of this, synoptically. Of course> the flexible framework on which the PN > is built is capable of delivering> much more than this and we hope you will > agree that this is an exciting> step toward a more stable, more > interoperative, suite of online> papyrological resources.> > To learn more > about the Integrating Digital Papyrology project, funded> by the Andrew W. > Mellon Foundaton, which has supported PN development> for the past year, as > well as the conversion of DDBDP and HGV data to> EpiDoc XML > (http://epidoc.sourceforge.net) see:> > www.duke.edu/~jds15/DDbDP-APIS-HGV_propRedacted.pdf.> > We are pleased to > announce also that the Mellon Foundation has supported> a second phase of > work on improvements to the PN and on creation of an> online distributed > data-entry tool that will allow, among many other> things, multiple editors > to add texts directly to the DDBDP, in an> effort both to speed up the > process of data-entry and to vest control of> our discipline's core data in > the hands of the community rather than a> tiny group of scholars. A lightly > redacted version of the approved> proposal can be found here:> > www.duke.edu/~jds15/IDP2-FinalProposalRedacted.pdf. Please take the> > opportunity to review the proposal. As you will see, we hope in a year> or so > to roll out a radically re-conceived DDBDP.> > Sincerely,> Joshua D. Sosin > (DDBDP)> Roger Bagnall (PN)> James Cowey (HGV, DDBDP)> Rodney Ast (APIS) _________________________________________________________________ Connect to the next generation of MSN Messenger http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-us&source=wlmailtagline
