RELATED PROJECTS AND ONLINE RESOURCES

Research projects: cuneiform

• Cuneiform Documents Search Engine (Wojciech Jaworski, Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University)
   
• 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 (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

• The 2003- Iraq War & Archaeology (Francis Deblauwe in cooperation with the University of Vienna)
   
• 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 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
   
• Mesopotamia—The British Museum
   

Electronic Publications and Discussion Lists

• 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
   
• Leuven Camera Dome System
   
• HTML Character Set
   

• Important Events

• AOS annual meeting, Boston, 16-19 March 2012
   
• Leiden Rencontre, 16-20 July 2012
   
• ASOR annual meeting, Chicago, 14-17 November 2012