A Cuneiform Digital Library

I found an amazing collection of cuneiform tablets in the digital format and thought to add information about this great work in my blog.You can visit http://cdli.ucla.edu/index_html?section=cdli  to have a look at this magnificient work.

cdli; digital library initiative is a joint project of University of California at Los Angeles and the Max Planck institute of the history of science. It represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the Internet the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, until the end of the pre-Christian era. According to their estimate there are about 500, 000 cuneiforms available all over the world kept for public and private use. From these huge number of cuneiform cdli has catalogued 225 000 in electronic form.

Their collection includes clay tablets from many museums and other institutes around the world and as a library student I could not ignore the way they catalogue clay tablets. So I include here one example on cataloguing clay tablets. 

Catalogue information: Primary publication unpublished unassigned, nn, nd Other publication(s) Collection New York Public Library, New York, New York, USA Museum no. NYPLC 285 Accession no. Eames J01 CDLI no. P342735 Provenience Genre Administrative ? Subgenre Period ED IIIa ? Date(s) referenced Measurements (mm) 077x080x027

Full Catalogue Record:

Publication Primary publication npublished unassigned Author: nn Publication date: nd Publication history: Citation: Author remarks: Published collation: Physical Information Object type: tablet Material: clay Object remarks: Measurements (mm): 077x080x027 Object preservation: Surface preservation: Condition description: Join information: Seal ID: Seal information:
Collection Information Owner: New York Public Library, New York, New York, USA Museum no.: NYPLC 285 Accession no.: Eames J01 Acquisition history:
Text Content: Genre: Administrative ? Subgenre: Subgenre remarks: Language: Text remarks: Chronology: Period: ED IIIa ? Period remarks: Date of Origin: Dates referenced: Date remarks Alternative years Accounting period: Writing phase: Provenience: Provenience: Provenience remarks: Excavation no.: Findspot square: Elevation: Stratigraphic level: Findspot remarks:

Digital image of the clay tablet being catalogued above

Picture taken from http://cdli.ucla.edu/index_html?section=cdli