The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative to participate in Google Summer of Code 2021

GSoC is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. Students work with an open source organisation on a 10 week programming project during their break from school. 

Émilie Pagé-Perron (Junior Research Fellow) and Jacob Dahl (Professor of Assyriology) direct The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) together with Bertrand Lafont (CNRS Paris) and Jürgen Renn (MPG Berlin). The project is driven by the mission to enable collection, preservation and accessibility of information—image files, textual annotation, and metadata—concerning all ancient Near Eastern artifacts inscribed with cuneiform. By making the form and content of cuneiform texts available online, the CDLI is opening pathways to the rich historical tradition of the ancient Middle East. 

Click here for a description of CDLI's current work and an overview of tools used in analysing cuneiform text artifacts and presenting them to the research and informal learner public.