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Monday, November 05, 2001
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i11/11a01401.htm SILICON BABYLON: Project Aims to Make Cuneiform Collections Available to Researchers Worldwide By SCOTT MCLEMEE ... Today, the field of Assyriology is going high-tech. And not a minute too soon. The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, a joint venture of the University of California at Los Angeles and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, in Berlin, will provide scholars with access to an enormous database of cuneiform inscriptions. With more than 200,000 tablets scattered throughout museums in several countries (not counting the steady flow of black-market items trickling out of Iraq and onto eBay), the world's 400 professional Assyriologists have been struggling to keep from being buried alive by primary documents. The online library promises to be the single-largest, most organized, and best cataloged repository of cuneiform inscriptions in the world, according to its director, Robert K. Englund, a professor of Near Eastern languages and culture at UCLA....
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