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Ast, Rodney and Cowey, James: Pylon: Combining Text Editing and Data Management, in Langkabel, Isabel et al. (Eds.): Editionswissenschaft – Textkritik – Digital Humanities: 25 Heidelberger Editionsprojekte, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2026 (Cultural Heritage: Materiality—Text—Edition (KEMTE), Volume 7), p. 35–41. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1634.c23582

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Rodney Ast, James Cowey

Pylon

Combining Text Editing and Data Management

Abstract Pylon is the diamond open access e-journal of the ‘Papyrological Publication Platform’, also known as ‘P3’. The aim of the initiative is to align publication of new editions of mostly Greek, but also Latin, Coptic, Demotic and Arabic papyrological and inscriptional texts with management of papyrology’s principal electronic text corpora, the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDbDP) and the Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri (DCLP), which are hosted at www.papyri.info. These Open Access/Open Source corpora are encoded in a subset of TEI-XML called EpiDoc, which is designed specifically for ancient inscriptions and papyri. Traditionally, curation of them has been in the hands of student assistants and volunteers who enter the texts manually. The P3 project simplifies this stage of post-publication data-transfer by preparing text editions slated to be published in Pylon for immediate transfer to papyri.info once individual journal issues are released.

Keywords Greco-Roman Egypt; online edition; TEI-XML; Papyrology; Epigraphy