The Hellespont Project: Integrating Arachne and Perseus

• Fachliche Zuordnung: Klassische, Provinzialrömische, Christliche und Islamische Archäologie
• Förderung: Förderung von 2010 bis 2014
• Projektkennung: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 171982858

The German Archaeological Institute and Tufts University propose to combine and expand the collections of two of the oldest and most established digital projects in Classical Studies – Arachne and Perseus – and thus create a single comprehensive digital library about the ancient world. The resulting collection will contain CIDOC-CRM metadata for more than 250,000 archaeological sites and objects, MODS/FRBR bibliographic records for editions of every major Greek and Latin author whose work survives either in the manuscript tradition or in substantial fragments, and TEI P5 compliant XML transcriptions for 20 million words of Greek and Latin primary sources, as well as for more than 50 million words of archaeological documentation, major lexica, commentaries, and encyclopedias.The Arachne/Perseus collaboration bridges three gaps: First, it provides a single, extensible environment for the material and textual record. Second, it addresses the problem of multilingual scholarship. Third, by releasing the shared collections of CIDOC-CRM, TEI-P5 XML, FRBR/MODS and other standards/best practices under a Creative Commons license, this collaboration goes beyond the challenge of making Arachne and Perseus interoperable.

• DFG-Verfahren: Digitalisierung und Erschließung (Wiss. Literaturversorgung und Informationssysteme)
• Internationaler Bezug: USA
• Antragstellende Institution: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI)
• Partnerorganisation: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
• Kooperationspartner: Professor Gregory R. Crane, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Reinhard Förtsch