Alexander Winkler<p>new paper on <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wikidata</span></a> and <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/papyrology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>papyrology</span></a>: Sahu-Hough, Jasmine Amara. „Parsing the Payri: The Potentials of Wikidata for Papyrologists“. International Journal of Information Science and Technology, Bd. 9, Nr. 1, 1, März 2025, S. 1–10. innove.org, <a href="https://doi.org/10.57675/IMIST.PRSM/ijist-v9i1.265" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.57675/IMIST.PRSM/ij</span><span class="invisible">ist-v9i1.265</span></a>.</p><p>EDIT: DOI doesn't seem to work, here's the URL: <a href="https://innove.org/ijist/index.php/ijist/article/view/265" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">innove.org/ijist/index.php/iji</span><span class="invisible">st/article/view/265</span></a></p>
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We're about halfway through scanning our entire(!) #Papyrology Reading Room here at Duke (about 1,200 volumes). Uncontroversially #PublicDomain volumes are being added to the @internetarchive here: https://archive.org/details/papyrology #papyri #histodons
archive.orgInternet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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"Several months after it launched, a rocket scientist named Casey Handmer stared at the digital scans of the scrolls for hours, looking for clues. He noticed a “crackle pattern” that he thought might be ink. It was just a hypothesis and he shared it with other researchers.
Farritor, who was interning at SpaceX at the time, spent evenings using machine learning code to find more crackle, constantly refining the algorithm. Eventually, the crackle turned to complete letters. It turned out Handmer’s hypothesis was right. He shared his findings on Twitter.
The work inspired Youssef Nader, a biorobotics grad student in Berlin, who refined the process of discovering the letters with a more involved machine learning technique.
In a few months, a handful of people who had never worked in papyrology moved the field forward 20 years."
"For the first time, amateur researchers have deciphered letters on an unopened ancient scroll, using artificial intelligence to isolate the letters."
Cool!
www.semafor.com · AI deciphers ancient scrolls burned and buried for 2,000 years | Semafor
"Perceptions of Writing in Papyri. Crossing Close and Distant Readings"
Online Conference 7-8 December 2023, Basel University
Argument: This online conference will analyze how digital culture has changed the perceptions of writing styles in #papyri.
#papyrology #DigitalHumanities
https://d-scribes.philhist.unibas.ch/en/events-1/papyri-conference/
d-scribes.philhist.unibas.chPerceptions of Writing in Papyri. Crossing Close and Distant Readings | Ancient History | D-Scribes
The Date of the New Oxyrhynchus Sayings of Jesus P.Oxy. 87.5575 | Variant Readings
https://brentnongbri.com/2023/09/09/the-date-of-the-new-oxyrhynchus-sayings-of-jesus-p-oxy-87-5575/ #papyrology
Variant ReadingsThe Date of the New Oxyrhynchus Sayings of Jesus P.Oxy. 87.5575The publication of the latest volume of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri has been in the news. Among the newly published pieces is a small fragment of a leaf of a papyrus codex that contains a previously unk…
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Ludwig and Margret regularly hosted students in their home, and Margret reminded Ludwig to keep the atmosphere on these occasions 'heimelig' and informal.
One of my first publications (on using Caracalla's imperial titulature to date two papyri) appeared in ZPE, a journal of which Ludwig was an editor. This publication would not have occurred without his encouragement.
Ludwig Koenen was a kindly and generous scholar, and I was fortunate to have studied with him.
Just learned of the passing yesterday evening of the eminent papyrologist Ludwig Koenen, who was my teacher as well as the chair of Michigan's Classical Studies department during my time there as a graduate student. He was 92.
Ludwig was a native of Köln who was educated at the city's university, where he studied under Reinhold Merkelbach. Ludwig was in his mid 40s when he left his native city for Ann Arbor, where he spent the rest of his career.
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Apparently antichretic loans are quite common in Bolivia? Obviously something Bolivians know well, but news to me!
Another way #papyrology prepares you for the world!
An introduction (in Spanish): https://casasenbolivia.com/el-anticretico-en-bolivia-requisitos-pasos-precauciones-guia-completa/
CasasenBoliviaEl Anticrético en Bolivia: Requisitos | Pasos | Precauciones | Guía CompletaEl anticretico en Bolivia es una actividad común para conseguir dinero en efectivo de un inmueble, de forma rápida y sin pagar intereses. Pero realizar un anticrético en el país puede ser realmente…
I've signed up for this, so I figure I should give it a go. I normally work on #ancienthistory and #papyrology (and #classics / #ancientcultures more broadly). Looking forward to seeing what sort of community emerges over here!