Concordia Project

What

The Concordia Project is bringing together a variety of digital information (including papyrological documents, epigraphic texts and historical geographic data) to create a prototype research resource for Greek and Roman Libya and Egypt, and beyond.

Who

Concordia is co-directed by Roger Bagnall (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University) and Charlotte Roueché (Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, King's College, London).

The project team includes Gabriel Bodard (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's), Tom Elliott (ISAW) and Sean Gillies (Ancient World Mapping Center, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill), as well as a distinguished Advisory Board.

When

April 2008 - March 2009

What

The team is building an interoperability framework for research materials related to the history of Greek and Roman Egypt, Libya and surrounding areas. We will use the Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) specification, recently promulgated by the Open Archives Initiative, together with GeoRSS tagging to indicate thematic and spatial commonalities amongst the content of multiple, discrete digital publications (some new, some remixed for the purpose).

Around these spatially-annotated ORE Resource Map Implementations in Atom, we'll build some lightweight web services and visualization tools that can be incorporated into other websites and applications.

See further:

• Concordia News
• Concordia Development Wiki

Reuse and Redistribution

All of the software and digital publications slated for creation or inclusion in Concordia will be released to the public under open licenses.

Support

Concordia is supported jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Higher Education funding Council for England of the United Kingdom acting through the Joint Information Systems Committee.

The Joint Information Systems Committee is an independent advisory body in the United Kingdom that works with further and higher education by providing strategic guidance, advice and opportunities to use Information and Communication Technologies to support learning, teaching, research and administration.

The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation and public programs in the humanities.

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this website do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the Joint Information Systems Committee.

Banner image taken from IRT 4, a second-century dedication from Sabratha of a marble base with bust to Concordia by Africanus. Photo courtesy British School at Rome.

The Other Concordia Project

If our project is not what you were looking for, you might be after the other Concordia project, which is not affiliated with ours in any way:

• Project Concordia:
  a global initiative designed to drive interoperability across identity protocols in use today