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GATE

Gregorian Archives Texts Editing

GATE is a project developed by the Historical Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University (APUG). Everybody can read the documents published on GATE and browse their digitalization. In addition, GATE provides a collaborative environment where scholars from all over the world can give their contribution to the transcription, edition and annotation of the documents preserved by APUG.

New users can get an introductory tour by clicking this link.

Monumenta

Monumenta

Recalling the tradition of the Monumenta meant as the publication of sources, GATE Monumenta collect correspondence and works (manuscript and printed) of some jesuits or related to a specific subject. Read more

Monumenta

Recalling the tradition of the Monumenta meant as the publication of sources, GATE Monumenta collect correspondence and works (manuscript and printed) of some jesuits or related to a specific subject. Read more
Collections

Collections

Collections are groups of documents or resources related to a subject or to a single author. A collection is composed only by documents preserved by APUG, usually unpublished, without an aim of completeness. Read more

Collections

Collections are groups of documents or resources related to a subject or to a single author. A collection is composed only by documents preserved by APUG, usually unpublished, without an aim of completeness. Read more
Lexicon of modernity

Lexicon of modernity

The Lexicon of modernity is one of the editorial projects hosted on GATE. Its aim is to create an historical glossary of concepts used during the modern era. Read more

Lexicon of modernity

The Lexicon of modernity is one of the editorial projects hosted on GATE. Its aim is to create an historical glossary of concepts used during the modern era. Read more

Monumenta

Monumenta

Recalling the tradition of the Monumenta meant as the publication of sources, GATE Monumenta collect correspondence and works (manuscript and printed) of some jesuits or related to a specific subject. Read more

Monumenta

Recalling the tradition of the Monumenta meant as the publication of sources, GATE Monumenta collect correspondence and works (manuscript and printed) of some jesuits or related to a specific subject. Read more
Collections

Collections

Collections are groups of documents or resources related to a subject or to a single author. A collection is composed only by documents preserved by APUG, usually unpublished, without an aim of completeness. Read more

Collections

Collections are groups of documents or resources related to a subject or to a single author. A collection is composed only by documents preserved by APUG, usually unpublished, without an aim of completeness. Read more
Lexicon of modernity

Lexicon of modernity

The Lexicon of modernity is one of the editorial projects hosted on GATE. Its aim is to create an historical glossary of concepts used during the modern era. Read more

Lexicon of modernity

The Lexicon of modernity is one of the editorial projects hosted on GATE. Its aim is to create an historical glossary of concepts used during the modern era. Read more

GATE board

Featured page

A particularly well-finished transcription page.
SAVE THE DATE: Roberto Bellarmino e la cultura rabbinica del suo tempo. Presentazione dell’edizione digitale del manoscritto autografo e inedito Notae in Genesim (APUG 385b). E' possibile prenotarsi all'evento compilando il form....continue reading

Latest news

2023-09-11

SAVE THE DATE: 2023-10-09 Roberto Bellarmino e la cultura rabbinica del suo tempo. Presentazione dell’edizione digitale del manoscritto autografo e inedito Notae in Genesim (APUG 385b). E' possibile prenotarsi compilando il form.

2022-09-30

The APUG promoted a seminar for restorers and conservators to reflect on the issues that emerged during the diagnostic analysis and restoration work carried out on codex FC 1165/1 over more than two years of the project.

2022-05-30

The School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon and the the Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University present the manuscript of António Vieira's Clavis Prophetarum (FC 1165/1).

Older news

2021-02-23

New special project in Monumenta Bellarmini: L'Index haereticorum di Roberto Bellarmino: un progetto in collaborazione con l'Universidad Católica de Córdoba. Thanks to f. José L. Narvaja collaboration the text of the unpublished Bellarmine's Index haereticorum is now available on GATE.

2021-02-19

New collection available! A collection dedicated to Giuseppe Gianfranceschi - jesuit, scientist and former rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University - has been opened. At the moment it includes four sections: La spedizione polare, Radio Vaticana, ASCI, Accademia.

...read all the news

Focus on...

A focus on a concept or a subject from the documents published on GATE.

What was honor? When does it end?. See the entry Honor published by Martín María Morales in the Lexicon of modernity. This concept is annotated on GATE in the following pages:

... further results

Collaborate with us

Would you like to contribute to GATE? How could you help us? How have other people already contributed? Visit this section to find out more about our collaborators or click here to ask for an account and start your collaboration!

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-APUG preserves about 6,000 manuscripts, mostly works written by the Roman College Jesuits through four centuries, from its foundation in 1551 until today. A large amount of these codices are not still published, since they are texts prepared by professors for the lessons, correspondence, notes and sermons. <br/>
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-To value this heritage it has been decided to start an open and collaborative project where users from all over the world can give their contribution.<br />
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-If you would like to cooperate to this project, please [http://www.unigre.it/Archivio/contatta_archivio_it.php send us an email] to request an account and start your collaboration.
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-== Aims and goals ==
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-The main goal of GATE is to take advantage of the possibilities offered by a simple and ready to use software like MediaWiki<ref>https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki</ref>, in order to publish unedited sources owned by APUG. Sources like those that will be published, usually require years of scholarly work and consistent funding, especially for digitization and the development and design of web platforms. Sometimes these preliminary requirements discourage the start of such projects, especially by institutions with limited resources. <br />
-[[File:APUG_Manuscripts.jpg|400px|thumb|left|Historical Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University manuscripts]]
-The use of MediaWiki to transcribe sources has a first example in the Wikisource project<ref>https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page</ref>, where thousands of printed books have been transcribed without interruption since 2003. Later, several projects started to use MediaWiki to transcribe manuscript sources too. The main goal of these initiatives was to involve many people in a crowdsourced transcription activity, usually related to huge corpora of manuscripts otherwise difficult to transcribe only through the work of few scholars. Today, projects such as Transcribe Bentham<ref>http://www.transcribe-bentham.da.ulcc.ac.uk/td/Transcribe_Bentham</ref> and Scripto<ref>http://scripto.org/</ref> are the testimonials of successful experiences that have involved thousands of people in the transcription of millions of manuscript words, sometimes bringing to the world previously unknown facts and writings.<br />
-The GATE project intends to follow and continue these experiences, involving not only a general public but specifically the youngest generations. Thanks to last years’ activities carried out with high schools students<ref>https://archiviopug.org/tag/scuola-lavoro/</ref>, APUG decided to put about 70 boys and girls to work on the transcription of letters in [[Main page#Projects|three specific projects]]. In addition to this task, they also have to annotate the texts, finding entities such as Names, Works, Places, Terms and Objects. This work is possible thanks to the implementation of the Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) extension<ref>https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki</ref>. SMW is used for different purposes:
-* to perform semantic annotation on the texts;
-* to make ‘semantic’ the letters metadata;
-* to empower the results of general search queries.
-Thanks to the specific architecture of Mediawiki which fosters discussion among users, students and users can also argue about the correct interpretation of single words or work together on the identification of a cited work.
-== Projects ==
-=== ''[[Epistolae Bellarmini cardinalis]]'' ===
-This project aims to transcribe all of the 2,674 letters written and received by Roberto Bellarmino during his cardinalate; this correspondence was collected and transcribed by the Jesuits François Xavier Le Bachelet (1855-1925) and Sebastian Peter Cornelis Tromp (1889-1975) in nine volumes of typescript transcriptions preserved by APUG, almost ready to be published but, due to unknown reasons, not yet published.
-=== [[Athanasius Kircher Project]] ===
-The starting point of this project are the 14 volumes of letters sent by and to Athanasius Kircher and five manuscripts, mostly unpublished, all of them preserved by APUG. Several years ago, Stanford University digitized the letters and made them accessible via LunaImaging software <ref>http://web.stanford.edu/group/kircher/cgi-bin/site/</ref>. To continue and complete this work, we have started to transcribe the letters and in addition, we will also proceed to transcribe a selection of Kircher’s published works and to collect a ''Bibliographia Kircheriana'', containing all the works and papers about Kircher published in the last three centuries.<br />
-The whole Athanasius Kircher project is generously supported by Sorgente Group Foundation<ref>http://www.fondazionesorgentegroup.com/english_home.html</ref>.
-=== [[Angelo Secchi Project]] ===
-Angelo Secchi (1818-1878) was a jesuit astronomer and scientist, one of the fathers of the modern Astrophysics. APUG preserves a large amount of his works, both handwritten and printed - with a lot of manuscript addition - and his extensive correspondence with the most important scientists of his time. With about 8,000 letters and more than 1,500 people involved, this correspondence is a treasure for the History of Science studies.
-== Acknowledgements==
-GATE has been set up thanks to the help and advice of many people, sometimes hidden behind usernames within the Mediawiki community. Starting from the IT office of the Pontifical Gregorian University, here we are particularly glad to mention these Mediawiki users : [[mw:User:Ciencia_Al_Poder|Jesús Martínez Novo]], [[mw:User:Cavila|Cavila]], [[mw:User:F.trott|F.trott]], [[mw:User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]], [[mw:User:Kghbln|Kghbln]] and [[mw:User:Yaron_Koren|Yaron Koren]]. <br />
-We also would like to thank all the students who have contributed to GATE with their passionate and laudable work. <br />
-Within each project page other people are mentioned for their special help and contribution.
-== References ==
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-== External links ==
-* [https://archiviopug.org/ Historical Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University website]
-* [http://www.unigre.it/home_page_it.php Pontifical Gregorian University website]
-* [http://claviusontheweb.it/ Clavius on the web project]