James Cowey
Advisor In Papyrology at Institute of Papyrology - University of Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolJames Cowey is an advisor in papyrology and digital humanities with 16+ years integrating classical philology and data modelling to make ancient Greek, Latin and Demotic texts digitally accessible. He leads and maintains core resources such as papyri.info and related GitHub repositories (including P3 and idp.data), troubleshooting EpiDoc XML and shaping editorial workflows that invite community contribution. Based in Heidelberg, he combines a long-running academic appointment at the University of Heidelberg with hands-on digital editorial work, bridging traditional cataloguing (BL, SB, HGV) and modern linked-data practices. His PhD in Greek and Latin and training at Cambridge and St Andrews underpin a rare mix of deep textual expertise and practical technical stewardship of the foremost papyrological digital infrastructure.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Greek and Latin, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Greek and Latin at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg / University of HeidelbergMLitt, Classics, MLitt, Classics at University of CambridgeMA, Classics, MA, Classics at University of St. Andrews
German, English
Github Skills (20)
markdown10
jupyter10
journal10
saxon7
xslt6
transformation5
testing4
java4
leiden4
python3
latin2
digital-humanities2
data-dump2
navigator2
graph1
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jcowey/P3
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
This is now a collection point for the Papyrological Publishing Platform (P3). To be found here are the files which are used to produce articles in the journal Pylon.
Contributions:648 commits, 10 PRs, 709 pushes in 2 years 5 months
publishingjournalpylonpointpublishing-platform
papyri/idp.data
Apr 2010 - Jan 2023
Data from the Integrating Digital Papyrology project
Contributions:3 reviews, 87073 commits, 326 PRs in 13 years
integratingjupyter
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