Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative Framework Update

FAIN: HAA-256224-17

UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024-4201)
Robert Keith Englund (Project Director: January 2017 to March 2022)

An infrastructure update of the established Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative that focuses on improving sustainability and enhancing accessibility for both new users and the existing user community.

The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) is a 20-year strong international digital humanities project curating data and maintaining the largest database of artifacts inscribed with cuneiform writing from ancient Iraq and adjacent regions. The CDLI Framework Update is a consolidation project aimed at ensuring both the longevity of the CDLI data and interface, and at increasing access, usability, and accessibility to the information it curates. As part of numerous sub-projects, a wide array of technologies to provide software support have been used through the years. The CDLI Framework Update will consolidate actual features into a framework structure and prepare new data displays, including machine readable outputs, to enhance information diffusion. This update will strengthen digital structure of CDLI, facilitating maintenance and future developments, and increasing access to information about ancient cultures to actual and prospective audiences, including the disabled.

Associated Products

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative new web site (Web Resource)
Title: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative new web site
Author: Aman Biswas
Author: Vedant Wakalkar
Author: Émilie Pagé-Perron
Author: Tim Bellefleur
Author: Heather D. Baker
Author: Jacob L. Dahl
Author: Robert K. Englund
Author: Nisheal John
Author: Logan Born
Author: Himanshu Choudary
Author: Christian Chiarcos
Author: Anila Hoxha
Author: David Wong
Author: Ajit Jadhav
Author: Aman Singh
Author: Lars Willighagen
Author: Khyati Agarwal
Author: Rune Rattenborg
Author: Habeeb Shopeju
Author: Amaan Iqbal
Author: Bakhtiyar Seyed
Author: Jiachen Zhong
Author: Max Ionov
Author: Qiwen Lyu
Author: Ralph Giles
Author: Sagar Sehgal
Author: Sameer Sengar
Author: Shraddha Manchekar
Author: Stephen Jude
Author: Swati Sharma
Author: Utsav Munendra
Author: Willis Monroe
Author: Jayanth
Author: Ilya Khait
Author: Ravi Nanda Saxena
Abstract: The preparation of this product is still undergoing. The source code is available here: https://gitlab.com/cdli/framework
Year: 2017
Primary URL: https://cdli.ucla.edu
Primary URL Description: This is the main url for the project, the new framework interface will be released at this address in September 2021.
Secondary URL: https://cdli.utoronto.ca
Secondary URL Description: The alpha test public version will be available at this address in October 2020.

C-ATF to CDLI-CoNLL converter (Computer Program)
Title: C-ATF to CDLI-CoNLL converter
Author: Jayanth
Author: Ilya Khait
Author: Émilie Pagé-Perron
Abstract: Converts Atf files to CDLI Conll format
Year: 2018
Primary URL: https://github.com/cdli-gh/atf2conll-convertor
Access Model: Open Access
Programming Language/Platform: Python, all platforms
Source Available?: Yes

CDLI-CoNLL to CoNLL-U converter (Computer Program)
Title: CDLI-CoNLL to CoNLL-U converter
Author: Anoosha Sagar
Author: Émilie Pagé-Perron
Author: Jayanth
Abstract: This tool converts a CDLI-CoNLL file to a CoNLL-U file.
Year: 2018
Primary URL: https://github.com/cdli-gh/CDLI-CoNLL-to-CoNLLU-Converter
Access Model: Open access
Programming Language/Platform: Python, all platforms
Source Available?: Yes

CoNLL-U to Brat standalone converter (Computer Program)
Title: CoNLL-U to Brat standalone converter
Author: Pouya Lajevardi
Author: Émilie Pagé-Perron
Author: Jayanth
Abstract: CoNLL-U format library for Python
Year: 2017
Primary URL: https://github.com/cdli-gh/conllu.py
Access Model: Open Access
Programming Language/Platform: Python, all platforms
Source Available?: Yes

Brat standoff to CDLI-CoNLL Converter (Computer Program)
Title: Brat standoff to CDLI-CoNLL Converter
Author: Shraddha Manchekar
Author: Émilie Pagé-Perron
Abstract: This tool converts a Brat standoff file format to a CDLI-CoNLL format.
Year: 2018
Primary URL: https://github.com/cdli-gh/brat_to_cdli_conll_converter
Access Model: Open Access
Programming Language/Platform: Python, all platforms
Source Available?: Yes

PyOracc CDLI Fork (Computer Program)
Title: PyOracc CDLI Fork
Author: Ralph Gilles
Author: Jayanth
Author: Aman Singh
Abstract: Python tools for working with ATF
Year: 2018
Access Model: Open Access
Programming Language/Platform: Python, all platforms
Source Available?: Yes

JTF ATF Checker (Computer Program)
Title: JTF ATF Checker
Author: Parser and exporter for the JSON Transliteration Format (JTF) Topics Resources
Author: Ilya Khait
Abstract: Parser and exporter for the JSON Transliteration Format (JTF)
Year: 2020
Primary URL: https://github.com/cdli-gh/JTF
Access Model: Open Access
Programming Language/Platform: Javascript, all platforms
Source Available?: Yes

MTAAC and CDLI Documentation (Web Resource)
Title: MTAAC and CDLI Documentation
Author: Heather D. Baker
Author: Lucas Reckling
Author: William McGrath
Author: Ilya Khait
Author: Maria Sukhareva
Author: Christian Chiarcos
Author: Pouya Lajevardi
Author: Jayanth
Author: Émilie Pagé-Perron
Abstract: Documentation website for both the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative and the Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of Cuneiform Languages
Year: 2017
Primary URL: https://cdli-gh.github.io/

Expanding Digital Assyriology with Open Access and Machine Learning: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative White Paper for the Global Philology Project (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Expanding Digital Assyriology with Open Access and Machine Learning: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative White Paper for the Global Philology Project
Author: Émilie Pagé-Perron
Abstract: Talk discussing CDLI plans of infrastructure changes.
Date: 02/20/2017
Conference Name: Global Philology Open Conference, Leipzig

E-philologie d'aujourd'hui et demain, l'assyriologie digitale en contexte (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: E-philologie d'aujourd'hui et demain, l'assyriologie digitale en contexte
Author: Émilie Pagé-Perron
Abstract: Discussion on CDLI's infrastructure change plans.
Date: 02/24/2017

Enhancing Collaboration between Digital Assyriology Projects through Open Access Practices (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Enhancing Collaboration between Digital Assyriology Projects through Open Access Practices
Author: Émilie Pagé-Perron
Author: Terhi Nurmikko Fuller
Author: Vanessa Juloux
Abstract: Discussing open access in Assyriological projects
Date: 03/14/2017
Conference Name: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) international conference, Atlanta

Text as Data: Digital Humanities for Text Analysis (Conference/Institute/Seminar)
Title: Text as Data: Digital Humanities for Text Analysis
Author: Émilie Pagé-Perron
Author: Tim Bellefleur
Abstract: Inter-field (all oriental past and modern studies) discussion on digital practices for natural language processing.
Date Range: March 17-20 2017
Location: Los Angeles
Primary URL: https://epageperron.github.io/text_as_data/

History and future developments of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: History and future developments of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
Author: Émilie Pagé-Perron
Abstract: History and future developments of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
Date: 06/4/2017
Conference Name: Digital Humanities Summer Institute Colloquium 2017

Getting LOADed: Practical Considerations, Tools, and Workflows for Producing Linked Open Assyriological Data (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Getting LOADed: Practical Considerations, Tools, and Workflows for Producing Linked Open Assyriological Data
Author: Terhi Nurmikko Fuller
Author: Émilie Pagé-Perron
Abstract: Practical Considerations, Tools, and Workflows for Producing Linked Open Assyriological Data
Date: 11/15/2017
Conference Name: American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Boston

Open Science at the CDLI, Focus on Collaboration and Accessibility (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Open Science at the CDLI, Focus on Collaboration and Accessibility
Author: Émilie Pagé-Perron
Abstract: Open Science at the CDLI, Focus on Collaboration and Accessibility
Date: 08/26/2020
Conference Name: Recent Developments in Digital Assyriology, University of Helsinki

New Technologies for Cuneiform Studies: Processing & Linking Textual Data (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: New Technologies for Cuneiform Studies: Processing & Linking Textual Data
Author: Émilie Pagé-Perron
Abstract: New Technologies for Cuneiform Studies: Processing & Linking Textual Data
Date: 04/8/2019
Conference Name: University of California Berkeley workshop

Cuneiform Collections as (Linked) Data” (workshop “Collections as Data (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Cuneiform Collections as (Linked) Data” (workshop “Collections as Data
Author: Émilie Pagé-Perron
Abstract: Cuneiform Collections as (Linked) Data
Date: 11/15/2018
Conference Name: workshop “Collections as Data,” Digital Libraries Forum

Recent Developments in Natural Language Processing for Cuneiform Languages (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Recent Developments in Natural Language Processing for Cuneiform Languages
Author: Émilie Pagé-Perron
Abstract: Recent Developments in Natural Language Processing for Cuneiform Languages
Date: 3/27/2018
Conference Name: workshop “Thinking Digital in Cuneiform Studies: Methods, Problems, Perspectives (Venice)

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