17 Dec 2001

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)
University of California at Los Angeles, USA and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany
Self-description: "The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3200 B.C., until the end of the third millennium. [...] The CDLI data set will consist of text and image, combining document transliterations, text glossaries and digitized originals and photo archives of early cuneiform."
Site contents: About CDLI; Project Associates and Staff; Related Projects; Announcements; Method and Conventions (Navigation of the web pages, Cuneiform text markup, Data entry conventions, Digitization of cuneiform tablets and images: Methods and techniques, Vector graphic representations of cuneiform, CDLI proposal for full catalogue of 4th and 3rd millennium texts); Sundries; Berlin Mirror site (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
URL http://cdli.ucla.edu/
Internet Archive http://web1.archive.org/web/*/cdli.ucla.edu/
Link reported by: The Scout Report (scout-report@hypatia.cs.wisc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/Online Guide/Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30