An initiative dedicated to further the standardisation of metadata entities and associated vocabularies in cuneiform studies.
View the Project on GitHub cdli-gh/glow_vocabularies
Geography Working Group
Rune Rattenborg, Sebastian Borkowski, Manuel Molina, Jamie Novotny, Susanne Rutishauser
The collection entity defines any public or private collection of cultural artefacts. A collection record may refer to large public or private institutions or the collections of a single individual. A collection may refer to an extant collection, as well as any extinct or now dispersed collection that can be defined with a reasonable degree of certainty.
A collection predominantly refers to a discrete institution, for example a public or private museum or collection, the study collection of a university, college, or research institute, or the private collection or possessions of an individual. A collection can include anything from many tens of thousands of inscribed objects (e.g. the British Museum) or a single inscribed object in the possession of a known or anonymous individual.
Collection records held by the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative have been added continuosly since the formation of the catalogue in 2003. The original form of collection records, still in widespread use in other databases, consisted of a single character string with the following format: ‘[collection name]’, with association certainty indicated by the absence (certain) or presence (uncertain) of a question mark ’?’ apended to the string.
| name | description |
|---|---|
| cdli_id | Identifier of the related collection entity record in the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative |
| wikidata_id | Identifier of the corresponding entity record in WikiData |
name | description —–|————–
For an index of collection records associated with artefacts included in the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)
For an index and searchable web map of collection locations associated with artefacts included in the Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (BDTNS)
For a recent geospatial index of collections incorporating records from the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), the Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (BDTNS), and the Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (ARMEP), as well as additional records, see the Cuneiform Inscriptions Geographical Collections Index (CIGC) prepared by Geomapping Landscapes of Writing (GLoW)