Wednesday, March 2, 2011
DDbDP / HGV / SoSOL training session
07-10 March 2011, members of the Integrating Digital Papyrology team will lead a session at King's College London, in which papyrologists will have the opportunity to learn about EpiDoc and SoSOL, the new online editing platform for the DDbDP and HGV. Participants include: Ljuba Bortolani, Ruey-Lin Chang, Graham Claytor, Jenny Cromwell, Alain Delattre, Marius Gerhardt, David Leith, Roberta Mazza, Mario Paganini, Maryline Parca, Antonia Sarri, Sofia Torallas, Paul van der Laan, Herbert Verreth, and Marja Vierros. Another such session is scheduled for 25-28 July 2011.
New in DDbDP
just posted to the papy-list:
Colleagues:
I write on behalf of the entire Integrating Digital Papyrology team with a few updates.
(1) Since we unveiled the DDbDP's new text-editing platform, well over a 1000 texts have been entered by the community. Special thanks go to our colleagues N. Gonis and his team, A. Benaissa, and P. Heilporn, who together have done all of us an enormous favor by entering hundreds of texts. But contributions have been made by dozens of colleagues from around the world, for which we may all be grateful. I acknowledge here too the (completely unremunerated) efforts of the Editorial Board members, who painstakingly vet every submission. We have a way to go yet, but I think it fair to say that we are now steaming along.
(2) We have now officially started referring proposed emendations to the board of Senior Editors, the speed, seriousness, and collegiality of whose efforts already are both credit to the collegiality of our field and promise of great things to come.
(3) Frequent users of SoSOL will have noted (or soon will) that we have taken the first major steps toward bringing the DDbDP's apparatus criticus conventions more closely into line with current practice. Specifically, you will see that we now offer a slightly more nuanced syntax for handling errors and orthographic regulariztion ('orth' has been replaced with 'reg [regularization] and 'corr' [correction]; the Helpers and Documentation have been updated; all texts in progress will be automatically updated so that nothing breaks).
(4) The PN has made a number of great improvements since last we wrote to the list. We are grateful for the many good suggestions (and bug reports) offered by a good many colleagues, and especially by the Trismegistos team and K. Worp. If something doesn't work the way you'd like, let us know. We won't/can't address everything, but we want to hear anything that you think would improve searching and browsing.
(5) Finally -- and maybe most exciting -- just yesterday we released (in addition to a number of enhancements to both DDbDP and HGV SoSOL interfaces) a new line-by-line commentary feature for DDbDP texts. If you open a DDbDP text and select the 'Commentary' tab at the top, you will be brought to a view of the Greek/Latin text that allows entry of notes and commentary, keyed to specific lines or ranges of lines. Documentation is not yet available, but I think you will find that the interface is pretty intuitive. For now, this allows you simply to enter free text. In future, the commentary will support easy linking to DDbDP texts, HGV records, APIS records, any of the suite of TM projects, and a variety of other useful features, including close interoperation with some of the projects under way at TM now. But for now, please feel free to test the initial functionality. Do know, however, that this feature is live; that all such comments will, as of now, be submitted to the same peer-review process that currently controls DDbDP submissions.
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(*) The DDbDP remains under co-directorship of James Cowey and Joshua Sosin, who together set policy in close consultation with Rodney Ast, the newly empaneled Editorial Board, and other colleagues. Day-to-day editorial decisions are made democratically by the Editorial Board (Rodney Ast, James Cowey, Paul Heilporn, Todd Hickey, Cisca Hoogendijk, Joshua Sosin), often in consultation with other colleagues. Under the new editorial platform, SoSOL, editorial proposals of special difficulty or weight are referred to a board of Senior Editors, who advise the Editorial Board on the virtue of the submissions. Senior Editors are: Isabella Andorlini, Roger Bagnall, Willy Clarysse, Hélène Cuvigny, Nikolaos Gonis, Dieter Hagedorn, Ann Hanson, Andrea Jördens, James Keenan, and Klaas Worp. Both panels of editors will rotate on a regular (yet to be determined) basis.
Please feel free to direct questions regarding the DDbDP to Rodney Ast (ast@uni-heidelberg.de), James Cowey (james.cowey@urz.uni-heidelberg.de), and Joshua Sosin (joshua.sosin@duke.edu); best to email all three, since inevitably all three will discuss.
The current public version is available at: http://papyri.info/
All best,
josh sosin (for the entire IDP team)
Colleagues:
I write on behalf of the entire Integrating Digital Papyrology team with a few updates.
(1) Since we unveiled the DDbDP's new text-editing platform, well over a 1000 texts have been entered by the community. Special thanks go to our colleagues N. Gonis and his team, A. Benaissa, and P. Heilporn, who together have done all of us an enormous favor by entering hundreds of texts. But contributions have been made by dozens of colleagues from around the world, for which we may all be grateful. I acknowledge here too the (completely unremunerated) efforts of the Editorial Board members, who painstakingly vet every submission. We have a way to go yet, but I think it fair to say that we are now steaming along.
(2) We have now officially started referring proposed emendations to the board of Senior Editors, the speed, seriousness, and collegiality of whose efforts already are both credit to the collegiality of our field and promise of great things to come.
(3) Frequent users of SoSOL will have noted (or soon will) that we have taken the first major steps toward bringing the DDbDP's apparatus criticus conventions more closely into line with current practice. Specifically, you will see that we now offer a slightly more nuanced syntax for handling errors and orthographic regulariztion ('orth' has been replaced with 'reg [regularization] and 'corr' [correction]; the Helpers and Documentation have been updated; all texts in progress will be automatically updated so that nothing breaks).
(4) The PN has made a number of great improvements since last we wrote to the list. We are grateful for the many good suggestions (and bug reports) offered by a good many colleagues, and especially by the Trismegistos team and K. Worp. If something doesn't work the way you'd like, let us know. We won't/can't address everything, but we want to hear anything that you think would improve searching and browsing.
(5) Finally -- and maybe most exciting -- just yesterday we released (in addition to a number of enhancements to both DDbDP and HGV SoSOL interfaces) a new line-by-line commentary feature for DDbDP texts. If you open a DDbDP text and select the 'Commentary' tab at the top, you will be brought to a view of the Greek/Latin text that allows entry of notes and commentary, keyed to specific lines or ranges of lines. Documentation is not yet available, but I think you will find that the interface is pretty intuitive. For now, this allows you simply to enter free text. In future, the commentary will support easy linking to DDbDP texts, HGV records, APIS records, any of the suite of TM projects, and a variety of other useful features, including close interoperation with some of the projects under way at TM now. But for now, please feel free to test the initial functionality. Do know, however, that this feature is live; that all such comments will, as of now, be submitted to the same peer-review process that currently controls DDbDP submissions.
-
(*) The DDbDP remains under co-directorship of James Cowey and Joshua Sosin, who together set policy in close consultation with Rodney Ast, the newly empaneled Editorial Board, and other colleagues. Day-to-day editorial decisions are made democratically by the Editorial Board (Rodney Ast, James Cowey, Paul Heilporn, Todd Hickey, Cisca Hoogendijk, Joshua Sosin), often in consultation with other colleagues. Under the new editorial platform, SoSOL, editorial proposals of special difficulty or weight are referred to a board of Senior Editors, who advise the Editorial Board on the virtue of the submissions. Senior Editors are: Isabella Andorlini, Roger Bagnall, Willy Clarysse, Hélène Cuvigny, Nikolaos Gonis, Dieter Hagedorn, Ann Hanson, Andrea Jördens, James Keenan, and Klaas Worp. Both panels of editors will rotate on a regular (yet to be determined) basis.
Please feel free to direct questions regarding the DDbDP to Rodney Ast (ast@uni-heidelberg.de), James Cowey (james.cowey@urz.uni-heidelberg.de), and Joshua Sosin (joshua.sosin@duke.edu); best to email all three, since inevitably all three will discuss.
The current public version is available at: http://papyri.info/
All best,
josh sosin (for the entire IDP team)
Thursday, January 20, 2011
IDP Data available on GitHub
The data for the Integrating Digital Papyrology (IDP) project is now available on GitHub: https://github.com/papyri/idp.data. This encompasses data from the DDbDP and HGV used to run papyri.info (some 55,000+ papyrological texts) - all in EpiDoc XML and made available under a Creative Commons license.
What does this mean for users?
- Anyone can browse the available data, and see any document's revision history.
- The repository can easily be downloaded or cloned, enabling re-use.
- Additionally, copies of the repository can be kept up-to-date and watched for changes.
- Changes can also be monitored using a variety of features made available by GitHub (generated Atom feeds, built-in "watch" functionality, etc.).
- Users can fork the repository on GitHub, and contribute suggestions, modifications, and emendations en masse by making a pull request.
Changes from the Papyrological Editor which have undergone editorial approval are updated hourly on the 'sosol' branch. In fact, much of this is made possible by the Papyrological Editor's use of the SoSOL tooling developed under the previous phase of the IDP project, as all of its internal revision control is done with Git. This is used to allow users to edit and submit changes to large numbers of files simultaneously with minimal overhead for merging changes together, a process which can be visualized quite well on the GitHub copy of the repository. The repository itself is relatively large (a checkout with the complete history is around 2GB), as it includes the revision history of the dataset going back several years.
We're excited to make this resource available, as we feel it represents an enabling of true community ownership of the data.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Papyri.info Updates
Several updates were pushed to the production server this morning. Downtime was less than 5 minutes.
Bugfixes:
Bugfixes:
- Trismegistos searches on records with multiple TM numbers now return results correctly.
- Some highlighting bugs have been fixed.
- HGV browse now displays in the correct order.
- Removed Google Font API from PN display due to bugs in font rendering.
- Links to Greek Law in Roman Times (GLRT) are displayed on relevant pages (see e.g. http://dev.papyri.info/ddbdp/bgu;2;373).
- Search results display date and place information, when available.
- Papyrological Editor updated to v1.0.8-rc9.
- Updated Mulgara triple store to v. 2.1.9.
- New data from the HGV database has been added.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Job Opportunity: Programmer for Digital Papyrology Project
New York University
Programmer/Analyst
New York University's Division of the Libraries seeks a Programmer/Analyst to work on the "Papyrological Navigator" (http://papyri.info) and associated systems. Papyri.info is a web-based research portal that provides scholars worldwide with the ability to search, browse and collaboratively edit texts, transcriptions, images and metadata relating to ancient texts on papyri, pottery fragments and other material. The incumbent will work closely with the Project Coordinator and with scholars involved in the project at NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Duke University, the University of Kentucky and the University of Heidelberg, as well as with NYU Digital Library Technology staff.
The incumbent's initial responsibilities will include: close collaboration with project team members to enhance and extend a robust production environment at NYU for the ongoing ingest and processing of new and updated text transcriptions, metadata and digital images; performing both analysis and programming of any required changes or enhancements to current PN applications.
Candidates should have the following skills:
NYU offers a competitive salary and superior benefit package, which includes tuition benefits for self and eligible family members, generous vacation, medical, dental, and retirement plans. For more information about working at NYU visit our website at: www.nyucareers.com.
To apply:
To apply for this position online, visit
http://www.nyucareers.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=52507
NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
Programmer/Analyst
New York University's Division of the Libraries seeks a Programmer/Analyst to work on the "Papyrological Navigator" (http://papyri.info) and associated systems. Papyri.info is a web-based research portal that provides scholars worldwide with the ability to search, browse and collaboratively edit texts, transcriptions, images and metadata relating to ancient texts on papyri, pottery fragments and other material. The incumbent will work closely with the Project Coordinator and with scholars involved in the project at NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Duke University, the University of Kentucky and the University of Heidelberg, as well as with NYU Digital Library Technology staff.
The incumbent's initial responsibilities will include: close collaboration with project team members to enhance and extend a robust production environment at NYU for the ongoing ingest and processing of new and updated text transcriptions, metadata and digital images; performing both analysis and programming of any required changes or enhancements to current PN applications.
Candidates should have the following skills:
- Bachelor's degree in computer or information science and 3 years of relevant experience or equivalent combination
- Must include experience developing web applications using Java
- Demonstrated knowledge of Java, Javascript, Tomcat, Saxon, Lucene, Apache, SQL, XML, XSLT
- Experience with metadata standards (e.g. TEI, EpiDoc)
- Experience working in Unix/Linux environments
- Preferred: Experience with Apache Solr, RDF triple stores (e.g. Mulgara), Clojure
- Preferred: Experience designing, building, and deploying distributed systems
- Preferred: Experience working with non-Roman Unicode-based textual data (esp. Greek)
- Excellent communication and analytical skills
NYU offers a competitive salary and superior benefit package, which includes tuition benefits for self and eligible family members, generous vacation, medical, dental, and retirement plans. For more information about working at NYU visit our website at: www.nyucareers.com.
To apply:
To apply for this position online, visit
http://www.nyucareers.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=52507
NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Sosin's address to the 2010 Papyrological Congress in Geneva
The text of Josh Sosin's address, delivered at the 26th Congress of the International Association of Papyrologists, 19 August 2010, in Geneva, has been posted to the Stoa Consortium blog. Gabriel Bodard has added a useful comment collecting bibliography related to the papyrological editor software described therein.
Friday, October 22, 2010
New Papyrological Navigator Release
Later today, Friday, October 22nd, we will release the long-awaited update to the Papyrological Navigator. PN 2.0 is a complete rewrite of the PN system, with tight integration of the data, display, and search capabilities.
New features include:
We hope you will enjoy using the new system. Look for more frequent updates in the future!
New features include:
- Cleaner interface
- More search options
- Browse by collection
- Search across metadata, transcriptions, and translations simultaneously
- New image viewer
- Improved performance
We hope you will enjoy using the new system. Look for more frequent updates in the future!
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