Once again I'm happy to see that people are interested in helping with the Ur transcriptions and that the option for presentation of the scans is overwhelmingly to give the document in its entirety and let you figure it out.

I have now created a site using Omeka and Scripto that allows for basic transcription. I'm currently in the process of testing ( Read more... )

Thanks to everyone who took part in the Ur poll. Looks like work with documents in any capacity is the main choice of those polled. After that is helping assign metadata to the documents and/or artifacts (very important since this helps make searches more effective).

I'm trying to get either Scripto or FromThePage running on a server as soon as ( Read more... )

The site of Ur, one of the earliest cities in the world, was jointly excavated by the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the British Museum for 12 years in the early 20th century. Despite many publications on the site, there is still much to learn. And new techniques and technologies mean we can get the data to researchers more efficiently. If, ( Read more... )