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Rattenborg, R., Johansson, C., Nett, S., Melin-Kronsell, N. & Andersson, J. (2022). Geomapping Landscapes of Writing:Large-Scale Spatial Analysis of the Cuneiform Corpus (c. 3400 BCE to 100 CE). In: : . Paper presented at Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 6-7 September 2022, Stockholm.
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2022 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
National Category
History and Archaeology
Research subject
Assyriology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-486304 (URN)
Conference
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 6-7 September 2022, Stockholm
Projects
Geomapping Landscapes of Writing
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, MXM19-1160:1
Available from: 2022-10-06 Created: 2022-10-06 Last updated: 2023-08-31
Nett, S., Rattenborg, R., Johansson, C., Smidt, G. R. & Andersson, J. (2022). Here, There, and Everywhere: A Global Heritage Perspective on Cuneiform Culture. In: : . Paper presented at Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference.
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2022 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
National Category
Archaeology
Research subject
Assyriology; Assyriology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-495714 (URN)
Conference
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
Available from: 2023-02-01 Created: 2023-02-01 Last updated: 2023-08-31
Rattenborg, R., Johansson, C., Nett, S., Smidt, G. R. & Andersson, J. (2022). The Cuneiform Corpus: A Provisional Survey. In: : . Paper presented at British Association of Near Eastern Archaeology Annual Meeting 2022.
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2022 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

While generally recognised as one of the oldest and longest-lived scripts in human history, the sheer size of the cuneiform corpus, certainly one of the largest discrete bodies of written sources from the ancient world, is seldom properly appreciated. The present paper offers first a review and an evaluation of past quantitative assessments of the cuneiform corpus and current levels of catalogue digitisation and integration. This serves to define lacunae in general indices currently available and principal issues relating to the quantification and interrogation of textual sources at the level of an entire corpus. 

We then proceed to discuss the distribution of the cuneiform corpus as an archaeological artefact, combining a newly developed open access spatial index of archaeological locations from across Europe, Asia, and Africa where cuneiform texts have been found (Rattenborg et al. 2021) with a quantitative survey based on aggregate numbers from scholarly literature. Aided by an extremely broad diachronic and diatopic outlook on a uniquely large body of written source material, this study sheds a first light on the full extent and prevalence of cuneiform inscriptions in the archaeological record.Geomapping Landscapes of Writing (GLoW). Department of Linguistics and Philology - Uppsala University. https://www.lingfil.uu.se/research/assyriology/glow/. Rattenborg, Rune, Carolin Johansson, Seraina Nett, Gustav Ryberg Smidt, and Jakob Andersson (2021) ‘An Open Access Index for the Geographical Distribution of the Cuneiform Corpus’. Cuneiform Digital Library Journal 2021/1: 1–12. http://www.cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdlj/2021/cdlj2021_001.html

Keywords
Cuneiform, Digital epigraphy, Spatial humanities
National Category
History and Archaeology
Research subject
Assyriology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-466081 (URN)
Conference
British Association of Near Eastern Archaeology Annual Meeting 2022
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, MXM19-1160:1
Available from: 2022-01-24 Created: 2022-01-24 Last updated: 2023-08-31
Rattenborg, R., Johansson, C., Nett, S., Smidt, G. R. & Andersson, J. (2021). An Open Access Index for the Geographical Distribution of the Cuneiform Corpus. Cuneiform Digital Library Journal (1), 1-12
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2021 (English)In: Cuneiform Digital Library Journal, E-ISSN 1540-8779, no 1, p. 1-12Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford: , 2021
Keywords
cuneiform, geodata, dataset, Middle East, cultural heritage
National Category
History and Archaeology
Research subject
Assyriology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-419815 (URN)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, MXM19-1160:1
Available from: 2020-09-16 Created: 2020-09-16 Last updated: 2024-02-13Bibliographically approved
Rattenborg, R., Johansson, C., Nett, S., Smidt, G. R. & Andersson, J. (2021). Cuneiform Inscriptions Geographical Site Index (CIGS).
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2021 (English)Data set, Primary data
Abstract [en]

This index contains a basic set of primary spatial, toponym, attribute, and external link information on more than 500 archaeological locations where texts written in cuneiform and derived scripts have been found, prepared by researchers of the Department of Linguistics and Philology of Uppsala University. The index is intended as a tool for students and researchers in cuneiform studies and related areas and as an aid to cultural heritage managers and educators in communicating and safeguarding this unique body of world written heritage.

The version 1.2 index contains a total nineteen fields, namely one primary ID, one spatial accuracy field, six integer and string fields for external data links, nine string fields with toponyms, and two integer fields making up the point coordinate of the record. Coordinates given use the WGS 1984 geographic coordinate reference system (EPSG 4326) and have been truncated to four decimal digits. Site locations have been traced from archaeological gazetteers and web mapping services (e.g. Pleiades and OpenStreetMap) and digitally generated from optical recognition using current and legacy satellite imagery datasets in QGIS 3.x.

Keywords
Cuneiform, Archaeology, Middle East, GIS
National Category
Archaeology
Research subject
Assyriology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-446551 (URN)10.5281/zenodo.4960711 (DOI)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, MXM19-1160:1
Available from: 2021-06-21 Created: 2021-06-21 Last updated: 2024-02-13Bibliographically approved
Andersson, J., Nett, S., Smidt, G. R., Johansson, C. & Rattenborg, R. (2021). Geomapping Landscapes of Writing (GLoW): Large-Scale Spatial Analysis of the Cuneiform Corpus (c. 3400 BCE to 100 CE). In: : . Paper presented at 12th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), Bologna, 6-9 April 2021.
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2021 (English)Conference paper, Poster (with or without abstract) (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The cuneiform record ranks among the largest preserved bodies of historical documentation from the ancient world (Streck 2010). Conveyed on omnipresent and extremely durable types of material, cuneiform texts are preserved in immense, extending over all of the Middle East and a historical period of more than three millennia of early human history. Drawing on recent advances in digital humanities and geospatial data mapping, GLoW aims to survey, analyse, and investigate broader, macrohistorical patterns in the formation and preservation of this unique historical record. As a first quantifiable, comprehensive study of the cuneiform corpus, GLoW will provide a benchmark example of the application of digital and spatial computing tools to the study of writing in early human history. This poster offers an introduction to key research foci and the project research programme, including an introduction to data infrastructure, dissemination, and key collaborators.

Keywords
Cuneiform, Assyriology, Middle East
National Category
History and Archaeology
Research subject
Assyriology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-461111 (URN)
Conference
12th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), Bologna, 6-9 April 2021
Projects
Geomapping Landscapes of Writing (GLoW): Large-Scale Spatial Analysis of the Cuneiform Corpus (c. 3400 BCE to 100 CE)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, MXM19-1160:1
Available from: 2021-12-13 Created: 2021-12-13 Last updated: 2023-08-31
Smidt, G. R., Nett, S., Rattenborg, R., Johansson, C. & Andersson, J. (2021). Geomapping Landscapes of Writing: Large-Scale Analyses of the Distribution and Composition of the Cuneiform Corpus – Sharing is caring, Digital dissemination of the Cuneiform corpus through established platforms.. In: : . Paper presented at 4th Digital History in Sweden Conference (DHiS2021), Umeå University, 9-10 December 2021.
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2021 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
National Category
History and Archaeology
Research subject
Assyriology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-482187 (URN)
Conference
4th Digital History in Sweden Conference (DHiS2021), Umeå University, 9-10 December 2021
Projects
Geomapping Landscapes of Writing (GLoW)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, MXM19-1160:1
Available from: 2022-08-19 Created: 2022-08-19 Last updated: 2023-08-31
Andersson, J., Nett, S. & Rattenborg, R. (2021). Large-Scale Approaches to Writing in the Ancient World: Mapping the Cuneiform Corpus (c. 3,400 BCE – 100 CE). In: : . Paper presented at Högre seminariet i antikens kultur och samhällsliv, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, 26 May 2021.
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2021 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
National Category
History and Archaeology
Research subject
Assyriology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-482185 (URN)
Conference
Högre seminariet i antikens kultur och samhällsliv, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, 26 May 2021
Projects
Geomapping Landscapes of Writing (GLoW)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, MXM19-1160:1
Available from: 2022-08-19 Created: 2022-08-19 Last updated: 2022-08-19
Rattenborg, R., Johansson, C., Nett, S., Smidt, G. R. & Andersson, J. (2021). Would You Consider Your Repository to Be Complete?: Metadata Standards and the Digital Landscape(s) of Cuneiform Studies. In: : . Paper presented at American Society of Overseas Research Annual Meeting 2021, Virtual, 9-12 December 2021.
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2021 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Standardizing, integrating, and linking metadata collections for digital text catalogues will be among the most pressing tasks facing students of cuneiform texts in coming decades. Digital research environments now extend into virtually every aspect of scholarly workflows, encompassing not only the rendition of inscriptions in a digital form, but also a wide range of metadata entities spanning artefactual, linguistic, spatial, temporal, and bibliographical aspects of cuneiform texts in their historical, archaeological, and museal setting. Not only the inscriptions, but also considerable parts of our knowledge about them, are rapidly being transformed into digital and extraordinarily dynamic resources. Furthering the integration and interoperability of such resources will be a key prerequisite for unleashing the full potential of the cuneiform corpus – certainly one of the largest bodies of historical documentation ever known – for future research and learning. Within this sprawling digital landscape, efforts at interconnecting data collections are faced with a vast undergrowth of discrete projects, registers, and collections with only limited reference to centralized, controlled indices and vocabularies for the definition of basic metadata entities. Introducing Geomapping Landscapes of Writing (GLoW), a three-year research project with the Uppsala University Department of Linguistics and Philology and funded by the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, this paper reviews a program of surveying, querying, and curating metadata collections for cuneiform studies. In so doing, we point to principal lacunae in the overall coverage of current digital catalogues, potential for linking repositories, and suggestions for best practice in the generation and preservation of metadata collections in the field.

Keywords
Metadata, Cuneiform, Middle East
National Category
History and Archaeology
Research subject
Assyriology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-461106 (URN)
Conference
American Society of Overseas Research Annual Meeting 2021, Virtual, 9-12 December 2021
Available from: 2021-12-12 Created: 2021-12-12 Last updated: 2023-11-23
Nett, S., Smidt, G. R., Andersson, J. & Rattenborg, R. (2020). Geomapping Landscapes of Writing: Large-Scale Analyses of the Distribution and Composition of the Cuneiform Corpus. In: : . Paper presented at 3rd Digital History in Sweden Conference (DHiS2020), Uppsala University, 3-4 December 2020.
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2020 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
National Category
History and Archaeology
Research subject
Assyriology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-482183 (URN)
Conference
3rd Digital History in Sweden Conference (DHiS2020), Uppsala University, 3-4 December 2020
Projects
Geomapping Landscapes of Writing (GLoW)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, MXM19-1160:1
Available from: 2022-08-19 Created: 2022-08-19 Last updated: 2022-08-19
Projects
Memories for Life: Materiality and Memory of Ancient Near Eastern Inscribed Private Objects [2016-02028_VR]; Uppsala UniversityGeomapping Landscapes of Writing (GLoW): Large-Scale Spatial Analysis of the Cuneiform Corpus (c. 3400 BCE to 100 CE) [MXM19-1160:1_RJ]; Uppsala University
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