ABSTRACT
The last quarter-century has certainly brought many changes in research on the ancient world and more broadly in higher education. It is not surprising to find that in papyrology as well there have been important developments. Indeed, the impact of digital research tools has been visible already in earlier chapters, and many books and articles discussed there reflect the digital revolution. But the impact of digitized resources is in fact pervasive, and it deserves some thought as a subject of its own. A quantitative revolution has had qualitative effects. A good example of the results, which shows how much things have changed since the 1990s, is the use by Willy Clarysse and Mark Depauw of a combination of metadata and text to allow a much more precise assessment of the rate of onomastic change in late antique Egypt.
