PAThs: sulla creazione di un geo-database aperto dedicato all’Egitto tardoantico e medievale

PAThs – Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature (P.I. Paola Buzi) is an ERC Advance project based at the Sapienza University of Rome. It focuses on compiling a catalogue of literary manuscripts in the Coptic language, organised by their archaeological and geographical contexts. The Atlas is an open access publishing platform, built on the top of open source technologies and backed up by a web database based on Bradypus system, an MIT licensed RDBMS highly specialised in the management of archaeological and other cultural heritage data. The Atlas and the web database are being constructed to become a linking hub for automated access to the data by third party software and other applications. Specific interconnecting output formats (mainly RDF) are being developed to link this platform to other collaborative systems – such as those developed by Pelagios Commons – utilising geographical representation, i.e. places, as a common reference point