Info Of Appeal: The Drive For Papyri.Info

The displace for papyri.info

papyri.info: studying the past, securing the time to come

A telephone phone to sustain our digital tools inwards papyrology

Ancient papyri are the earliest too largest corpus of documents from the ancient world. They conduct maintain made a major contribution to our noesis too agreement of the civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean, including everyday life, administrative too legal dynamics, political alter too literary production.

For many years, scholars active inwards the plain of papyrology conduct maintain benefited from a broad make of reliable tools inwards print. In the digital revolution, papyrologists conduct maintain taken the Pb inwards establishing novel tools that serve the scientific community. We conduct maintain pride both inwards the high standards of scholarship offered past times such instruments, too inwards the fact that the underlying information are freely available to all every bit an opened upwards access repository. Among the diverse digital tools which papyrologists piece of job on a daily basis, papyri.info no incertitude holds the or too then essential position, land other of import devices revolve or too then it.

Can nosotros conduct maintain all this for granted?

Certainly not.

Funding agencies conduct maintain locomote reluctant to back upwards projects that, essentially, conduct maintain no fourth dimension limit. While this tin locomote partly compensated past times the input made straight past times the community of scientists, papyri.info even too then requires monitoring on a daily dry reason to channel these efforts.

The Association Internationale de Papyrologues (AIP) too the American Society of Papyrologists (ASP) are launching a articulation telephone phone to flora an endowment to comprehend the salary for the permanent, full-time grade of papyri.info coordinator. The endowment’s target is laid at 2.5 i M one thousand USD, of which $500,000 has already been secured inwards matching funds, cheers to the generosity of a donor. We appeal to the farther generosity of all individuals, institutions too funding agencies, yell for them to assistance us to ensure that scholars too students inwards papyrology too related disciplines tin locomote along to create goodness from this of import resources over the coming decades. The target is realistic, provided that all members of the scientific community contribute to the effort; merely if nosotros create non human activity promptly, the sustainability of this essential tool volition presently locomote severely threatened.

You tin brand a donation through the next link:

https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/classicalstudies/AnnualGiving.html. 

Or y'all may contact Helen Cullyer, Executive Director of the Society for Classical Studies (helen.cullyer@nyu.edu), who volition assistance y'all to channel your contribution inwards the or too then appropriate way.

Please assistance us to secure the time to come for the adjacent generation of papyrologists, locomote generous, too encourage your friends too colleagues to bring together us inwards supporting this call.

Prof. Sofia Torallas Tovar
University of Chicago
ASP Representative 

Prof. Paul Schubert
University of Geneva
AIP President

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