Babylonian Section Dr. Stephen TinneyAssociate Curator, Babylonian Section; Director of the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project; and Associate Professor, University of PennsylvaniaDr. Stephen Tinney is focussing his efforts on bringing Sumerian, the oldest-known written language in the world?online. From 2002-2007 he continued, along with Dictionary project staff
Philip Jones, Tonia Sharlach and Fumi Karahashi, working on the online
version of the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary. Beyond being a dictionary, the
word-definitions link to examples of usage in the online collections
of Sumerian texts making the Sumerian Dictionary will be a gateway to
early Mesopotamian culture. The team plans to augment the Dictionary
in due course with text-translations and essays on concepts, material
culture and ethnographic matters to enhance its cultural function. In
addition the project is a leader in linguistic annotation and In addition, a multi-year project to create digital record-images of
the entire collection of the Babylonian Section was begun with the
scanning of administrative texts from the third millennium BCE. This
work was carried out as part of a cooperative effort with the
Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative at UCLA and the Max Planck
Institute in Berlin. The project's goal is to digitize the entire Funding for the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency, and the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Funding for the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative was provided by a grant from the NEH and the National Science Foundation. He is also Co-Director of a new project, Scholarly Libraries based in Cambridge, England, which will edit and analyze several first millennium BCE archives of Assyrian and Babylonian scholars. This project will run from September 2007 until 2012. He is Co-Principal Investigator of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative and a collaborator on the Digitical Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts. He maintains a web-site which serves as a portal and hosting service for Cuneiform Digital Library projects.
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