Proteus: Capturing the Big Data Problem of Ancient Literary Fragments

Ancient Lives网站非常成功，这是一个众包合作在线项目，处理来自Oxyrhynchus的希腊纸莎草纸档案，在过去两年中产生了巨大的公众影响，已经产生了一个巨大的数据库-超过150万份Oxyrhynchus纸莎草纸（超过700万个字符），超过25万名在线合作者的工作。这些包括文学、亚文学和纪录片文本。为了以最高效率处理大量数据，我们现在建议建立Proteus，这是一个由创新的数字编辑和研究工具组成的系统，用于研究未出版的纸莎草纸的学者，以及一个更大的门户网站，致力于文学和亚文学片段（细分为历史，传记等）。我们的目标是制作一个单一的屏幕界面，使文学和亚文学文本的原始版本和编辑版本之间的比较，并建立一个在线系统，促进学者之间的合作，在编辑过程中。Proteus的编辑工具将改变纸莎草学家和编辑的工作方式，而其门户网站，可供全世界访问，将鼓励进一步的研究，并提供一种智能的方式来连接这些片段随着时间的推移而重新编辑时产生的插图和变体阅读。在构建这个工具的同时，我们还将制作Servius对Vergil Aeneid VI的评论的评论版，作为他对史诗其他书籍评论的后续数字评论版的原型。这个原型将为创建古代注释的数字版本提供一个框架，其复杂的格式需要创新的数字阅读方式，这超出了法典的经验。鉴于所产生的许多文本的传记和历史性质，我们还将借此机会更新一部致力于零碎证据的开创性参考著作：《Griechischen Historiker的碎片》。第四部分：传记与古代文学。 因此，该项目将有五个主要成果：1）Proteus数字编辑工具，通过该工具，被指派从事纸莎草纸研究的学者将编辑他们的片段，并为印刷和数字出版做好准备。我们打算立即用1，700份未出版的Bodleian纸莎草纸、300份Antinooopolis纸莎草纸和选择未出版的Sackler纸莎草纸，包括荷马的《伊利亚特》和《荷马史诗》、希罗多德和《七十士译本》。3）数字Servius环境：用于数字研究和创建古代注释数字版本的原型界面。塞尔维乌斯对维吉尔的《埃涅阿斯纪》第六卷的评论将首先在网上公开。4)从我们的档案馆中收集了数十万未经研究的纸莎草纸，用于在《古代生活》和《变形记》中进行处理。5）立即更新《悲惨历史学家的碎片》。第四部分：传记与新断代文献。

The hugely successful Ancient Lives website, a crowd-sourced collaborative online project dealing with the archive of Greek papyri from Oxyrhynchus, which has had tremendous public impact over the past two years, has generated a massive database - over 1.5 million transcriptions of the Oxyrhynchus papyri (over 7 million characters), the work of over 250,00 online collaborators. These include literary, sub-literary and documentary texts. To handle this mass of data with maximum efficiency we now propose to build Proteus, a system comprising of both an innovative digital editing and research tool for scholars working on unpublished papyri and a larger web portal devoted to literary and subliterary fragments (sub-classified for history, biography, and so on). We aim to produce a single on-screen interface to enable comparison between original and edited versions of literary and subliterary texts, and establish an online system that facilitates collaboration between scholars in the editorial process. Proteus' editing tool will change the way papyrologists and editors work, while its web portal, accessible to the world, will both instigate further research and provide an intelligent means of interfacing the conjectures and variant readings that these fragments generate as they are re-edited over time. Whilst constructing this tool, we will also produce a critical edition of Servius' commentary on Vergil Aeneid VI, serving as a prototype for subsequent digital critical editions of his commentary on other books of the epic. This prototype will offer a framework for creating digital editions of ancient commentaries in general, whose complex formatting require innovative ways of digital reading, something beyond the codex experience. Given the biographical and historical nature of many of the texts generated, we will also take the opportunity to update a seminal reference work devoted to fragmentary evidence: the Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker Continued. Part IV: Biography and Antiquarian Literature. The project will thus have five main outputs: 1) The Proteus digital editing tool, through which scholars assigned to work on Oxyrhynchus papyri will edit their fragments and make them ready for print and digital publication.2) The Proteus digital portal for searching literary and subliterary fragments and the collaborative re-editing of texts. We intend to immediately populate our site with 1,700 unpublished Bodleian papyri, 300 Antinoopolis papyri, and select unpublished Sackler papyri including Homer's Iliad and Homerica, Herodotus and the Septuagint.3) The digital Servius environment: a prototype interface for digitally researching and creating digital editions of ancient commentaries. Servius' commentaries on Virgil's Aeneid book VI will become accessible online in the first instance. 4) The imaging of hundreds of thousands more unstudied papyri from our archive for processing in Ancient Lives and Proteus.5) Immediate updating of Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker Continued. Part IV: Biography and Antiquarian Literature with new fragments.