Trismegistos

• Main Author: Gheldof, Tom
• Other Authors: Universität Leipzig, Ägyptologisches Institut
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig 2016
• Subjects: verlinkte Metadaten; antike Texte; Identifikationsnummern; Prosopographie; Analyse sozialer Netzwerke; linked metadata; texts of the Ancient World; identification numbers; prosopography; social network analysis; ddc:930
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-201617; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-201617; http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/20161/1.4.%20DHEgypt15%20-%20Gheldof%2C%20Trismegistos.pdf

Trismegistos (TM, http://www.trismegistos.org) is a metadata platform for the study of texts from the Ancient World, coordinated and maintained by the KU Leuven research group of Ancient History. Originating from the Prosopographia Ptolemaica, TM was developed in 2005 as a database containing information about people mentioned in papyrus documents from Ptolemaic Egypt. In other related databases additional information about these texts was found: when they were written (dates), where they are stored (collections) and to which archive they belong (archives). The following years also epigraphic data were added to these databases. The TM platform has two important goals: firstly it functions as an aggregator of metadata for which it also links to other projects (e.g. Papyrological Navigator, Epigraphic Database Heidelberg), secondly it can be used as an identifying tool for all of its content such as Ancient World texts, places and people. With its unique identifying numbers and stable URI\'s, TM sets standards for and bridges the gap between different digital representations of Ancient World texts. In the future TM aims not only to expand its coverage, but also to provide new ways to study these ancient sources, for example via social network analysis trough its latest addition: Trismegistos networks ((http://www.trismegistos.org/network).