Cyberresearch on the ancient Near East and neighboring regions : case studies on archaeological data, objects, texts, and digital archiving / edited by Vanessa Bigot Juloux, Amy Rebecca Gansell, Alessandro di Ludovico.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions / Vanessa Bigot Juloux, Amy Rebecca Gansell, and Alessandro di Ludovico -- Part 1 : Archaeology -- Chapter 1: Conceptual Framework for Archaeological Data Encoding / Sveta Matskevich and Ilan Sharon -- Chapter 2 : Landscape Archaeology and Artificial Intelligence: the Neural Hypersurface of the Mesopotamian Urban Revolution / Marco Ramazzotti -- Part 2 : Objects -- Chapter 3: Data Description and the Integrated Study of Ancient Near Eastern Works of Art: The Potential of Cylinder Seals / Alessandro di Ludovico -- Chapter 4 : A Quantitative Method for the Creation of Typologies for Qualitatively Described Objects / Shannon Martino and Matthew Martino -- Part 3 : Texts -- Chapter 5 : A Qualitative Approach Using Digital Analyses for the Study of Action in Narrative Texts: KTU 1.1-6 from the Scribe ʾIlimilku of Ugarit as a Case Study / Vanessa Bigot Juloux -- Chapter 6 : Network Analysis for Reproducible Research on Large Administrative Cuneiform Corpora / Émilie Pagé-Perron -- Chapter 7 : Semantic Domains in Akkadian Texts / Saana Svärd, Heidi Jauhiainen, Aleksi Sahala, and Krister Lindén -- Chapter 8 : Using Quantitative Methods for Measuring ­ Inter-Textual Relations in Cuneiform / M. Willis Monroe -- Part 4 : Online Publishing, Digital Archiving, and Preservation -- Chapter 9 : On the Problem of the Epigraphic Interoperability of Digitized Texts of the Mediterranean and Near Eastern Regions from the First Millennium bce / Doğu Kaan Eraslan -- Chapter 10 : Digital Philology in the Ras Shamra Tablet Inventory Project: Text Curation through Computational Intelligence / Miller C. Prosser -- Chapter 11 : Publishing Sumerian Literature on the Semantic Web / Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller

CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions is now available on PaperHive! PaperHive is a new free web service that offers a platform to authors and readers to collaborate and discuss, using already published research. Please visit the platform to join the conversation. CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions provides case studies on archaeology, objects, cuneiform texts, and online publishing, digital archiving, and preservation. Eleven chapters present a rich array of material, spanning the fifth through the first millennium BCE, from Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Iran. Customized cyber- and general glossaries support readers who lack either a technical background or familiarity with the ancient cultures. Edited by Vanessa Bigot Juloux, Amy Rebecca Gansell, and Alessandro Di Ludovico, this volume is dedicated to broadening the understanding and accessibility of digital humanities tools, methodologies, and results to Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Ultimately, this book provides a model for introducing cyber-studies to the mainstream of humanities research.