Dear colleagues,
FIEC is supporting this very important call issued by the International Association of Papyrologists and the American Association of Papyrologists to establish an endowment that will secure the future of papyri.info, an essential tool for all papyrologists. Our former general secretary, Prof.
Paul Schubert, is chairing the campaign committee. *Please share this call and the webpage www.supportpapyri.info <http://www.supportpapyri.info> with the members of your associations, and above all, be generous in supporting this call!*
The campaign for papyri.info
papyri.info: studying the past, securing the future A call to sustain our digital tools in papyrology Ancient papyri represent the largest and richest corpus of documents from Antiquity. They have made a profound contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean, including everyday life, administrative and legal dynamics, political change and literary production. Since the early 1990s papyrologists have been at the forefront of the digital revolution in the humanities.
Not only have the tools that we have developed transformed our own discipline, they also have done much service to the broader scientific community. We take pride both in the high standards of scholarship offered by these resources, and in the fact that they are almost completely available in Open Access. Among the various digital tools which papyrologists use on a daily basis, papyri.info assuredly holds the most essential position; all of our other resources depend upon it.
*Can we take all this for granted?*
Certainly not.
Funding agencies have become reluctant to support projects that, essentially, have no time limit. While this can be partly compensated by the input made directly by the community of scientists, papyri.info still requires monitoring on a daily basis to channel these efforts.
The Association Internationale de Papyrologues <https://www2.ulb.ac.be/assoc/aip/index.html> (AIP) and the American Society of Papyrologists <https://www.papyrology.org> (ASP) are launching a joint call to establish an endowment to cover the salary for the permanent, full-time position of papyri.info coordinator. *The endowment’s target is set at 2.5 million USD, of which $500,000 has already been secured in matching funds, thanks to the generosity of a donor. *We appeal to the further generosity of all individuals, institutions and funding agencies, asking them to help us to ensure that scholars and students in papyrology and related disciplines can continue to benefit from this important resource over the coming decades. The target is realistic, provided that all members of the scientific community contribute to the effort; but if we do not act promptly, the sustainability of this essential tool will soon be severely threatened.
You can make a donation through the following link:
https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/classicalstudies/AnnualGiving.html.
Or you may contact Helen Cullyer
<https://classicalstudies.org/users/helen-cullyer>, Executive Director of the Society for Classical Studies (helen.cullyer@nyu.edu), who will help you to channel your contribution in the most appropriate way.
Please help us to secure the future for the next generation of papyrologists, be generous, and encourage your friends and colleagues to join us in supporting this call.
Prof. Sofia Torallas Tovar
University of Chicago
ASP Representative
Prof. Paul Schubert
University of Geneva
AIP President
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Prof. Dr. Sabine R. Huebner |
FIEC Secretary General |
Chair of Ancient History |
Petersgraben 51 | 4051 Basel | Schweiz
Tel. +41 61 207 12 51
Email sabine.huebner@unibas.ch |
https://altegeschichte.philhist.unibas.ch/de/personen/sabine-huebner/
https://unibas.academia.edu/SabineRHuebner
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