RELATED PROJECTS AND ONLINE RESOURCES

Research projects: cuneiform

• Mesopotamian calculator (Baptiste Mélès, Archives Henri Poincaré, University of Lorraine, & Christine Proust, SAW/CNRS)
• Cuneiform Documents Search Engine (Wojciech Jaworski, Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University)
• Attinger online (Pascall Attinger, University of Bern)
• Achemenet (Pierre Briant, Collège de France)
• Online Akkadian Dictionary (J.-Paul Silva, Toulouse)
• A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian (Andrew George and Nicholas Postgate, Cambridge University)
• Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (BDTNS) (Manuel Molina, Instituto de Filologia of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid)
• Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts (Niek Veldhuis, University of California, Berkeley)
• Digital Hammurabi (Jerry Cooper, Johns Hopkins University)
• The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (Jacob Dahl, Oxford University)
• Lexicon of Sumerian Logograms (John Halloran, Los Angeles)
• Old Assyrian Text Project (Carsten Niebuhr Institute, University of Copenhagen)
• Old Babylonian Text Corpus (West Bohemian University, Pilsen)
• The Prosopography of Ebla (Universities of Rome and Florence)
• Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Home Page (Steve Tinney, University of Pennsylvania)
• Sumerisches Glossar (Pascal Attinger, University of Bern, and Walther Sallaberger, University of Munich)
• Ebla Prosopography (Alfonso Archi & Amalia Catagnoti, University of Rome)
• Hethitologie Portal Mainz
• Hethitologie.de (Robert Oberheid)
• Edition électronique de textes cunéiformes de Nuzi : les archives du palais (Philippe Abrahami, Brigitte Lion, and O. Rouault)

Research projects and informal learning: archaeology

• Archnet (Archaeological Research Institute, Arizona State University)
• Center for the Study of Architecture/Archaeology (Bryn Mawr)
• Cyberpursuits: Near and Middle East
• Modeling Ancient Settlement Systems (MASS) (University of Chicago)
• ArchAtlas (Oxford)
• Ancient World Mapping Center (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill)
• Tell Leilan Project (Yale University)

Research projects and informal learning: general

• SOAS: Recorded Akkadian (recordings of Akkadian literature by noted specialists)
• Écriture cunéiforme et civilisation mésopotamienne (Cécile Michel & Christina Proust go Hollywood)
• The Pedersén kml file (from here)
• ABZU (University of Chicago)
• Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History (University of Chicago)
• Iraq Museum International
• Cultural Heritage Language Technologies (project description)
• Etana -- Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives (Jack Sasson, Vanderbilt University)
• European Cultural Heritage Online
• European Network of Excellence on ICT Applications to Cultural Heritage
• Eternal Egypt (Egyptian Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage and IBM)
• Government Views of Iraq (Grace-Ellen McCrann, Cohen Library, The City College of New York)
• OI Research Archives On-Line (Charles Jones, University of Chicago)
• Omniglot: Writing Systems & Languages of the World
• Perseus Digital Library (Gregory Crane, Tufts University)
• Resources for Ancient Near Eastern Studies (Marco Bonechi)
• West Semitic Research Project (Bruce Zuckerman, University of Southern California)
• CultureMath (Christine Proust, Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris)
• Akkadian readings (Martin Worthington, Cambridge)

Organizations

• International Association for Assyriology
• International Council on Archives
• Digital Antiquity
• Archaeology Data Service
• International Phonetic Association
• Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation
• Portable Antiquities Scheme (UK)
• MICHAEL: Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe
• Museum with no Frontiers (Digital library project funded by the European Union)
• UNESCO: World Heritage Iraq
• ICOM: Emergency Red List of Iraqi Antiquities at Risk
• UNESCO: & Iraq
• Interpol: Endangered Iraqi objects
• Zúistar á Íslandi

Electronic Publications and Discussion Lists

• Agade archives
• JSTOR
• CDLI Publications: CDLJ, CDLB, CDLN
• Journal of the American Oriental Society
• Journal of Cuneiform Studies
• Journal of Near Eastern Studies
• Oriental Institute Electronic Publications
• Zeitschrift für Assyrologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie
• Ancient Mesopotamia Forum
• Ancient Near East 2

On-line Computing and Imaging Resources

• Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society
• Digital Library Federation
• The Fedora Project (Open-Source Digital Repository Management System)
• The Open Archives Initiative
• The Text Encoding Initiative
• The Unicode Consortium
• World Wide Web Consortium
• Portable Light Dome (Leuven)
• Synthescape Art Imaging
• HTML Character Set

Important Events

• 226th AOS annual meeting, Boston, 18-21 March 2016
• 62nd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Philadelphia, 11-15 July 2016
• 63rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Marburg, 24-28 July 2017
• 64th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Innsbruck, 2018
• 65th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Paris, 2019
• 66th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Mainz & Frankfurt, 2020
• ASOR annual meeting, Atlanta, 18-21 November 2015