“Understanding Mesopotamia is a way of understanding what it means to be human.” - @epageperron
Great article about the exciting future of Assyriology, featuring @digcuneiform @cdli_news @opcassyriology@britishmuseum
https://t.co/xHhiYh3glm via @BBC_Future
Team photo for our annual @digcuneiform MTAAC meeting, Frankfurt, July 24 🤓📈
From left to right: Ilya Khait, @apkallatu, @epageperron and Christian Chiarcos
An intense day of discussions with @epageperron and our computational linguist colleagues in Frankfurt for @digcuneiform - now time for a rest, followed by beer later on!
If alternate years stem from the fact that year names can be ambiguous, shouldn't the alternative years be linked to year names instead of artifacts? How do you model the fact that a month name can bear a specific month number based on place, ruler, and year of rulership?
Saturday fun: finishing the untangling of temporal data for the new @cdli_news database schema. Hamsters in @sameersengar7 and @epageperron can be heard from afar! 🐹🐹🐹
New stats for cuneiform texts of the Ur III period: Unique but not lemmatized word tokens: 78 182 (Yay affixing languages!), All word tokens: 3 241 013 (ouch!); Unique (not curated) sign readings: 3189 🤓
DYK that you can build a personal website through @humcommons? Check out @Apkallatu's beautifully organized site for inspiration! https://t.co/MVr4VgandX
The @DiggingIntoData MTAAC project will be represented at the #dh2018 conference! Join us at the #TAPDIDWorkshop on the Monday https://t.co/RT9Q9AbVPr (DM for details on registering.) https://t.co/oJKbTWbHrF
Going to #DH2018 in Mexico? We are hosting a special workshop called "Building International Bridges Through Digital Scholarship: The Trans-Atlantic Platform Digging Into Data Challenge Experience" on Monday, 6/25. Please join us! https://t.co/OLKykdmHKi
A @DiggingIntoData grant to @UMNews & @UniofOxford supported development of a transcription tool for the Coptic language that engaged citizen scholars to help transcribe Egyptian papyrus documents. #NEHinYourState#MN https://t.co/EdDE75ira1
Hard working engineers making the future of cuneiform shiny bright for Assyriologists, historians, linguists, museum staff, et al 😊 Team @cdli_news Framework and @digcuneiform MTAAC @UCLA#UCLANELC @jayanthiitb @Douglas1995Li @shraddha_m26 (Anoosha and Krishna not in pictures)
Thanks to all our speakers and participants in the conference #FuturePhilologies! Save the date for "Digital Approaches to Teaching the Ancient Mediterranean" #DATAM this fall, 10/26/2018.