Introducing Oracc.org: the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus
Cuneiform is one of the world’s oldest scripts. It was used for about three thousand years all over the Middle East to write about a dozen different languages, and finally died out in the first century AD. Some 300,000 objects inscribed with cuneiform writing survive in museums and collections worldwide, whose contents range from letters and legal documents to royal inscriptions and sophisticated works of ancient scholarship. The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (Oracc.org) is a corpus-building cooperative which provides facilities and support for the creation of free online editions of cuneiform texts, as well as a range of tools for linguistic and historical analysis. It has rapidly become the discipline standard, with over 20 participating projects worldwide. In this talk I will argue that Oracc’s open licensing policy has been a major factor in its success.
by Eleanor Robson on July 1st at 16:00 in Track II
Eleanor Robson is one of three co-founders of Oracc.org, along with Steve Tinney of UPenn and Niek Veldhuis of UC Berkeley. She is Reader in Ancient Middle Eastern Science at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.
Rufus Pollock
Daniel Dietrich
Jason Kitcat
Sebastian Hellmann
Lucy Chambers
Hauke Gierow