featured in a BBC piece !

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· Dec 10, 2018

“Understanding Mesopotamia is a way of understanding what it means to be human.” - @epageperron Great article about the exciting future of Assyriology, featuring @digcuneiform @cdli_news @opcassyriology @britishmuseum bbc.com/future/story/2 via @BBC_Future

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MTAAC annotation team :) Analyzing Ur III administrative texts from the

@cdli_news

CDLI database 😊

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Tame us, crazy us. Fall 2018 CDLI research and development team!

@SwatiSh01920196

and

not in the picture

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@digcuneiform

Aug 15, 2018

Team photo for our annual

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MTAAC meeting, Frankfurt, July 24 🤓📈 From left to right: Ilya Khait,

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Boosted Assyriologist

@Apkallatu

Aug 10, 2018

This afternoon I learned Markdown and put a whole lot of documentation on annotating Sumerian in it for

@digcuneiform

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If alternate years stem from the fact that year names can be ambiguous, shouldn't the alternative years be linked to year names instead of artifacts? How do you model the fact that a month name can bear a specific month number based on place, ruler, and year of rulership?

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@digcuneiform

Jul 14, 2018

Saturday fun: finishing the untangling of temporal data for the new

@cdli_news

database schema. Hamsters in

@sameersengar7

and

@epageperron

can be heard from afar! 🐹🐹🐹

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Still a ways to go, but we finally made ePSD2 beta 1 public on Oracc today: oracc.museum.upenn.edu/epsd2

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@digcuneiform

Jul 10, 2018

New stats for cuneiform texts of the Ur III period: Unique but not lemmatized word tokens: 78 182 (Yay affixing languages!), All word tokens: 3 241 013 (ouch!); Unique (not curated) sign readings: 3189 🤓

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@digcuneiform

Jul 10, 2018

We agree !

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Humanities Commons

@humcommons

· Jul 10, 2018

DYK that you can build a personal website through @humcommons? Check out @Apkallatu's beautifully organized site for inspiration! heatherdbaker.hcommons.org

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More stickers have arrived, I'm ready for the rencontre in Innsbruck... #digitalhumanities #cuneiform #rai64

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#TAPDIDWorkshop 🛫🛫🛫 See you there !

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Boosted Assyriologist

@Apkallatu

· Jun 24, 2018

Heading for Mexico City with @epageperron to speak about @digcuneiform at #DH2018

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New notebook: "More on Using NER to Map Geographic Metadata in MARC Records" (AKA using clustering/distance measurements for disambiguating placenames) nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/diyclas

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The

MTAAC project will be represented at the #dh2018 conference! Join us at the #TAPDIDWorkshop on the Monday dh2018.adho.org/en/talleres/ (DM for details on registering.)

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Émilie Pagé-Perron

@epageperron

· Jun 23, 2018

Flying very soon to Mexico city with @Apkallatu to participate in the #dh2018 #TAPDIDWorkshop! dh2018.adho.org/en/talleres/

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Going to #DH2018 in Mexico? We are hosting a special workshop called "Building International Bridges Through Digital Scholarship: The Trans-Atlantic Platform Digging Into Data Challenge Experience" on Monday, 6/25. Please join us! dh2018.adho.org/en/talleres/

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supported development of a transcription tool for the Coptic language that engaged citizen scholars to help transcribe Egyptian papyrus documents. #NEHinYourState #MN ow.ly/tvgD30iLepe

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There certainly is; that’s closely related to what the good folks at

@digcuneiform

are up to. I’m very interested in what they’re doing

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MTAAC's

new software infrastructure is in active development!

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CDLI

@cdli_news

· Jun 13, 2018

A normal day at the lab: @Douglas1995Li finishing the connection of the new database schema (prepared by @shraddha_m26, assisted by Krishna) with the new CDLI search and @jayanthiitb working for the first time with PHP technology to provide a GUI to the transliteration checker

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@digcuneiform

May 8, 2018

Hard working engineers making the future of cuneiform shiny bright for Assyriologists, historians, linguists, museum staff, et al 😊 Team

@cdli_news

Framework and

@digcuneiform

MTAAC

@UCLA

#UCLANELC @jayanthiitb

@Douglas1995Li

@shraddha_m26

(Anoosha and Krishna not in pictures)

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Looks like really great work for Sumerian presented by

@epageperron

cdli-gh.github.io/mtaac/ #FuturePhilologies

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Thanks to all our speakers and participants in the conference #FuturePhilologies! Save the date for "Digital Approaches to Teaching the Ancient Mediterranean" #DATAM this fall, 10/26/2018.

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CDLI entry of the tablet: cdli.ucla.edu/P509066

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CDLI

@cdli_news

· Mar 15, 2018

In the Old Akkadian period, pig fat was employed in the treatment of various objects such as leather, cloth bags and implements. What could have been its other usages? cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DOC-00

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@digcuneiform

Mar 16, 2018

Jinyan of the University of Toronto team is currently annotating the morphology of an administrative text listing lukur priestesses receiving oil cdli.ucla.edu/P142753 🛢️🙋‍♀️

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Conférence

demain 12:35 A-6290 La traduction et analyse automatiques des langues cunéiformes #Mésopotamie facebook.com/groups/6429412

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I'm hiring a postdoc! Come work with me on NLP for literary texts: people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~dbamman/nlppo

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@digcuneiform

Mar 8, 2018

The beginning of a brand new adventure: Linked Open Data for the field of Assyriology! Linked data is at the heart of the new

@cdli_news

infrastructure and the

@digcuneiform

MTAAC project annotation pipeline. SPARQL server: up !

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Spend the summer programming an open-source project with the CDLI! Open to university students📢 cdli.ucla.edu/?q=news/gsoc20

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@digcuneiform

Feb 16, 2018

Hard working #assyriologists #lemmatizing, #morphology-#annotating, #translating and obscure localities-identifying in the RIM library at

@UofTNMC

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Announcing— “Future Philologies: Digital Directions in Ancient World Text” Conference at

@isawnyu

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@isawlib

Fri. April 20, 2018 diyclassics.github.io/future-philolo #futurephilologies

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🔒CDLI links are now secure, enhancing users' privacy 🔐cdli.ucla.edu/?q=news/cdli-w

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That's a happy mouse!

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CSMS Symposium 30 September: Digital Cuneiform: New Approaches to the Study of Ancient Near Eastern Written Sources projects.chass.utoronto.ca/csms/symposium

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