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Integrating Digital Papyrology (IDP) is a multi-institutional project aimed at establishing and improving relationships between three digital papyrological resources: the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDbDP), the Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens (HGV), and the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS). Started in 1983, the DDbDP collects a number of digital transcriptions of ancient documentary papyri from print editions. HGV and APIS, meanwhile, collect metadata (place of origin, date, keywords, bibliography, etc.) and images of much of the same material. A uni cation of these data sources would allow linking the digital transcriptions of texts with the images, dates, and other metadata, and in 2007 the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded a project, “Integrating Digital Papyrology,” to begin this process. Over the years the DDbDP has undergone a number of transitions, and this project also supported its transition from an idiosyncratic SGML encoding to standards-based EpiDoc XML markup.1 In addition the grant provided funding to improve and nish the rst generation of a tool for searching and browsing the uni ed collection of materials, called the Papyrological Navigator (or PN). At the conclusion of the IDP grant, Mellon funded a second phase of the project (called IDP2) with the following goals: