Dear Rodney, James and Joshua ,
Thanks for the posting, but is there password for the temporary
Columbian DDDBDP ! I always have this message whenever I click on the link
that you have kindly provided.
Access forbidden!
You don't have permission to access the requested directory. There is either
no index document or the directory is read-protected.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the
webmaster<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Error 403 ldpddev.cul.columbia.edu
Sat Oct 06 07:08:58 2007
Apache/2.2.6
On 10/5/07, Josh Sosin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Dear Colleagues:
>
> We are pleased to announce that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has
> awarded a grant to Duke University to support integration of the
> DDBDP, APIS, and HGV. Work is already under way, taking place at
> Duke, Columbia, Heidelberg, and the Centre for Computing in the
> Humanities at King's College London.
>
> At the end of the project (August 2008) we aim to release a single,
> stable user interface -- the Papyrological Navigator that was
> demonstrated at the Congress -- to support cross-searching on DDBDP,
> APIS, and HGV. At that point the canonical copy of the DDBDP will no
> longer reside at Perseus, but at Duke (archival) and Columbia (for
> searching). We have posted a lightly redacted copy of the proposal
> that Mellon funded at www.duke.edu/~jds15/DDbDP-APIS-
> HGV_propRedacted.pdf.
>
> In the meantime, we invite you to use a *temporary* DDBDP search
> interface (at http://ldpddev.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/ddbdp/
> ddbdp.pl). This engine, very kindly given to us by David Mimno
> (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), is not perfect and will not
> be the basis for the interface currently under development, but it
> will tide us over when Perseus is down and until next August.
>
> The temporary interface will undergo *no future development* under
> this current project. Known strengths and weaknesses:
>
> - access to most of the texts entered since PHI7 (the effective
> cut-off for the old Perseus interface; inclusive up to ca. 2003),
> Unicode output
> - it is slow; line numbers are not clearly identified; some
> markup incorrectly rendered on screen; search terms are not
> highlighted within result sets.
>
> Limitations notwithstanding, we are grateful to have use of this
> temporary expedient and look forward to unveiling the next generation
> Papyrological Navigator and an integrated DDBDP-APIS-HGV next summer.
>
> Search tips for users:
> -to search the entire corpus, leave the "Series" box blank
> -if you do not see the searched word(s) on the results page, use
> "Find" in your browsert window (enter Unicode Greek, and remember that
> -eta = "h" on the keypad
> -theta = "q"
> -xi = "c"
> -chi = "x"
> -psi = "y"
> -omega = "w"
>
> All best,
> Joshua Sosin
> James Cowey
> Rodney Ast
>
--
Best Regards: Usama
Usama A. Gad
Teaching Assistant,
Department of Ancient European Civilization,Faculty of Arts,
Ain Shams University,
Abbasia-Cairo, Egypt.
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
http://usamagad.blogspot.com
