CUNEIFORM is the ancient script widely
used across the Mesopotamian plateau
from the fourth millennium BC until the
first century BC. During these millennia,
symbols of pictographic origin became
increasingly abstract and polyvalent in
nature, and the correct reading and
translation of each individual cuneiform
sign is highly context –dependent and
complex.
LINKED DATA is a method for publishing
structured data using URIs and RDF.
Providing data online in non-proprietary
format and with unique identifiers allows
relationships between data to be
established. Semantic technologies such as
ontologies, SPARQL and triple stores will
link heterogeneous data from various
Assyriological projects and also across
different domains.
The CUNEIFORM DIGITAL LIBRARY
INITIATIVE (CDLI) brings together the
knowledge accumulated by numerous
internationally distributed institutions and
provides online access to their collections
and metadata. There are now some
270,000 object records published by the
CDLI, each record containing a number of
possible points for interlinking and
semantically enriching the data.
Image of cuneiform tablet object record from http://www.cdli.ucla.edu
T E R H I N U R M I K KO, M P H I L , M S C , M S C
ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMPUTING RESEARCH GROUP
WEB SCIENCE DOCTORAL TRAINING CENTRE
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON
AC A D E M I C S U P E RV I S O R S :
D R G R A E M E E A R L ( AC R G ) & D R N I C H O L A S G I B B I N S ( WA I S )
THE DIGITAL ECODONY PROGRAMME IS A RESEARCH COUNCILS UK CROSS COUNCIL INITIATIVE LED BY THE EPSRC AND CONTRIBUTED TO BY AHRC, ESRC AND MRC.