Info Of Trismegistos News: Mailing Listing Together With Tm Varia

Mailing listing in addition to TM Varia

Dear listing members,

This electronic mail contains tidings on:

1. the subscription procedure in addition to the futurity of Trismegistos

2. the novel mailing listing of Trismegistos (and us bothering y'all less on the PAPY-list)

3. novel features: a) visualising geographic distribution; b) highlighting info; c) TM Pantheon

4. Citing TM

1. Subscription procedure in addition to future

Taking into occupation organisation human relationship the Christmas break, in that location is at nowadays simply near a calendar month left for institutions to subscribe for 2020 amongst the extra calendar month thrown inward for free. While nosotros direct had some reply (thank you!), this is every bit yet insufficient to guarantee the continued existence of Trismegistos (more info). Of course of didactics nosotros volition give matters to a greater extent than time, but it would endure skillful if nosotros had a amend persuasion on where matters stand, then whatever information on that (‘we’ve asked our library’, ‘it is nether review past times the committee’, ‘no, we’re non interested’) is most welcome (off list, of course, preferably to tm-info@trismegistos.org). This is also of import for us to determine how much functionality volition stay for non-subscribers from 1 Jan 2020 onwards.

As to the unmarried user subscriptions which allow personalisation (see below), these volition move available afterwards inward November. Please annotation that these come upward at 199 EUR if your establishment does non subscribe, in addition to 49 EUR if it does. These prices are for right away payment through a credit card, in addition to are inclusive VAT. You volition have a dated in addition to signed receipt, confirming payment, through email. If your establishment insists on an banking concern annotation in addition to a toll without VAT, nosotros direct special single-user subscriptions for this, but these come upward at 299 EUR excl. VAT, every bit this involves significantly to a greater extent than management in addition to time.

2. Mailing list

Well, this is awkward, every bit Wikipedia would set it … We experience that the PAPY listing is actually non the identify for advertisements such every bit this, in addition to this volition endure the final fourth dimension nosotros advert coin here. In future, information near the subscription volition endure passed on through a mailing listing to which y'all tin flame subscribe, in addition to which volition convey y'all this in addition to other TM tidings near functionality, novel additions, etc., presumably near i time a month, but sure never to a greater extent than than i time a week. Please register here. This is also where y'all volition endure informed (soon) near our exciting ‘Adopt a record’ programme :-)!

We volition all the same ship emails to the PAPY listing to inform y'all near novel features, but non every bit frequently.

3. New features

a. Ever wanted to visualise the geographic distribution of a specific laid of texts over the Egyptian nomes? Perhaps inward percentages of the total dataset for Egypt? Then nosotros direct skillful tidings for you. If y'all work the fundamental search from the homepage, it is at nowadays possible to visualise the results on a map of Egypt, either inward absolute figures or inward percentages, compared to whatever subset y'all want. This map for event shows the pct of Greek inward codices from the Byzantine menses inward the LDAB and this one the pct of Greek inward ostraca from the Ptolemaic period. We volition post a video showing how it plant soon. These visualisations volition endure preserved for subscribers after 31 Dec 2019, every bit volition endure a similar map for the entire ancient world, which is inward preparation.

b. Some users may already direct noticed that it is at nowadays possible to highlight specific types of information inward the text from papyri.info shown on our text special pages (e.g. www.trismegistos.org/text/9025): places, people, gods in addition to related (see below), text irregularities, in addition to dates. It was already possible to direct for a regularised text without diacritics, to omit delineate breaks, in addition to to larn rid of the hyperlinks to TM Words et al. For all of these features in that location is a default setting (without highlights), but for those amongst a personal subscription it volition endure possible to laid their preference automatically inward whatever agency they similar (e.g. highlight alone the places inward a semi-regularised text). This comes inward add-on to setting your default preference to tables rather than charts in addition to other features which volition follow.

c. I already wrote it, but it never hurts to repeat: since nosotros had the information, nosotros direct decided to highlight also the gods in addition to related objects of religious worship inward our TM Pantheon. This piece of work (on the footing of an internship of Marije Derksen inward 2017-18) is non fully laid upward yet, then for the fourth dimension existence it is alone referred to inward the context mentioned above. The same holds truthful for TM Formulae, which for the fourth dimension existence alone highlights the epistolary formulae every bit collected past times Delphine Nachtergaele (formerly UGent, piece of work done inward 2012-15; publication PhD forthcoming inward the TOP Special Series). More near this soon, through our mailing list.

4. We direct seen TM popular upward inward several presentations at recent conferences: it is dainty to run across how the scholarly community is benefitting from our work! This visibility is also vital for our survival: the to a greater extent than people advert us, the to a greater extent than universities in addition to other funding bodies realize that nosotros are an essential tool that is widely used. Nevertheless, nosotros also disclose that several presentations present information from TM (e.g. maps or graphs) without citing us every bit a source. Yet a website is no dissimilar from a book, whether printed or digital, inward this respect. We would thence kindly similar to urge y'all to cite us when using the TM platform. 

That’s it, for now!

For Trismegistos,

Mark Depauw

Herbert Verreth

Yanne Broux

Willy Clarysse

in addition to our CLARIAH collaborators Tom Gheldof in addition to Frederic Pietowski