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</li><li><a href="/projects">What we do</a> › </li><li>Trismegistos </li></ol></nav> <a id="main-content"></a> <h1 class="page__title title" id="page-title">Trismegistos </h1> <div about="/project/trismegistos" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document" class="ds-2col-stacked node node-project view-mode-full clearfix"> <div class="group-header"> </div> <div class="group-left"> <div class="field field-name-field-project-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://be.dariah.eu/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_article_cust/public/Trismegistos.jpg?itok=GVksOC5h&c=4f3c0bcf1a26e4a1ed554226e234e287" alt="" /></div></div></div> </div> <div class="group-right"> <div class="field field-name-field-field-of-research field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Field of research: </div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/field-research/ancient-history">Ancient history</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-project-website field-type-link-field field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">URL: </div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.trismegistos.org">Visit the official website</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-involved-dariah-partners field-type-entityreference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Involved dariah partners: </div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/partner/ku-leuven">KU Leuven</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-related-service field-type-entityreference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">related service: </div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/service/collaborative-databases">Collaborative databases</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-start-and-end-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Start and end date: </div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2014-01-01T00:00:00+01:00">1-1-2014</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-contact-person field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Contact person: </div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Mark Depauw: mark.depauw@kuleuven.be</div></div></div> </div> <div class="group-footer"> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p style="text-align:justify"><a href="http://www.trismegistos.org" target="_blank">Trismegistos (TM)</a> 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 documents from Egypt between approximately 800 B.C. and 800 A.D. Other related databases contain additional information about individuals occurring in these texts (people); where these texts were found (provenance); when they were written (dates), where they are stored (collections); to which ancient group of texts they belong (archives); and several other types of information such as textual corrections, abbreviations etc. Recently, the database was expanded to the entire Ancient World.</p> <p style="text-align:justify">The TM platform, currently counting almost 700,000 texts and more than 7,000,000 records containing all information, has two important goals. Firstly, it functions as an aggregator of metadata for which it also links to other projects. Secondly, it aims to provide stable identifiers for all types of information about the Ancient World, e.g. texts, places and people. With its unique id numbers and stable URI's, Trismegistos sets standards for and bridges the gap between different digital representations of Ancient World texts. This strategy enables TM to offer all its metadata as linked open data and attract other projects to connect with TM.</p> </div></div></div> </div> </div> </div> <aside class="sidebars"> <section class="region region-sidebar-second column sidebar"> <div id="block-views-4b4e373fe9b55dd49d52a9a94bc14e93" class="block block-views first last odd"> <h2 class="block__title block-title">Browse projects by theme</h2> <div class="view view-projects-browse-by-theme-no-overview- view-id-projects_browse_by_theme_no_overview_ view-display-id-block view-dom-id-f890cc339076f44723f6a89d86e84fc5"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="item-list"> <ul class="views-summary"> <li><a href="/field-research/research-infrastructure">Research infrastructure</a> (4) </li> <li><a href="/field-research/classical-studies">Classical studies</a> (3) </li> <li><a href="/field-research/social-history">Social history</a> (3) </li> <li><a href="/field-research/text-analysis">Text analysis</a> (2) </li> <li><a href="/field-research/web-archiving">Web archiving</a> (2) </li> <li><a href="/field-research/periodical-studies">Periodical studies</a> (1) </li> <li><a href="/field-research/ancient-history">Ancient history</a> (1) </li> <li><a href="/field-research/dialect-geography">Dialect geography</a> (1) </li> <li><a href="/field-research/geohumanities">Geohumanities</a> (1) </li> <li><a href="/field-research/judicial-history">Judicial history</a> (1) </li> <li><a href="/field-research/medieval-studies">Medieval studies</a> (1) </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="view-footer"> <p>Go back to the <a href="/node/1">projects overview page</a>.</p> </div> </div> </div> </section> </aside> </div> </div> <div class="region region-bottom"> <div id="block-copyright-block-copyright-block" class="block block-copyright-block first last odd"> Copyright © Dariah-BE, 2017-2025. </div> </div> </body> </html>