JISC

Many of the outputs from this project are now embedded in on the web, such as in Pleiades website which gives geographical information on the ancient world.

The main output, launched in September 2009, is a new digital edition of the Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitana, which presents a digital edition of all the engraved inscriptions collected from the Roman monuments in northern Libya.

This demonstration project unites an array of separately produced and independently hosted primary source collections with a uniquely comprehensive geographic dataset to provide search and analysis capabilities presently available only within certain special-purpose, limited-content digital systems.

The content of three existing, highly respected collections (including 50,000 papyrological and 3,000 epigraphic texts) will be brought together with open-source software and newly digitised content (an additional 950 epigraphic texts plus complete topographic and toponymic records for over 3,000 historical geographic features) to create an unparalleled research resource for Greek and Roman Libya and Egypt, and beyond.

Concordia will exploit basic web architecture and standard formats (XHTML, EpiDoc/TEI XML, and Atom+GeoRSS) to provide to any user with a standard web browser: seamless textual search, dynamic mapping and geographical correlation for these (and potentially other) arbitrary collections of humanities content, hosted anywhere on the web.

Concordia is funded under the JISC/NEH transatlantic digitisation collaborative grants programme, part of the JISC digitisation programme.

Final Report

 The project plan is available as a Pdf document.

Partner sites: King's College London and the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University