@inbook{48ba74febcc54e43b180c4a7c2f7198c,
title = "Corpus-driven models of lexicography and Mesopotamian cultural heritage preservation at the CDLI",
abstract = "Since its inception in 2000, the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) has worked for the documentation and dissemination of the primary data for the huge number of cuneiform tablets that are today scattered around the globe. The project has consistently emphasised the non-proprietary, public character of primary data and one of its primary methods of encouraging the public availability of data has been to encourage collective authorship and/or partially anonymous dissemination of primary data. Therefore I would like to emphasise that all the efforts that I describe herein were collective in nature and I report them here primarily in order to inform the larger Assyriological community about some of the underlying premises and goals of ongoing work at CDLI and other similar projects such as the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary (PSD) and the Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts (DCCLT). Although my presentation at the Rencontre dealt with a broader range of topics, in the following I limit myself to three areas where the efforts of CDLI are of particular interest: (i) the development of transliterational corpora for the periods between the Late Uruk and Ur III periods, (ii) first-order markup in which relatively simple ASCII transliterations are transformed into XML format, and (iii) the lemmatization of the XML transliterations, the first substantial example of second-order markup to be applied to CDLI corpora, yielding a primary resource for both the preservation of Mesopotamian cultural heritage and the emergent lexicography of the PSD.",
author = "Justin Johnson",
year = "2008",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-885923-54-7",
series = "Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilisation",
publisher = "The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago",
pages = "69--74",
editor = "Robert Biggs and Jennie Myers and Martha Roth",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 51st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale",
}