Program
26th August
15.45-16.00 Signing in to Zoom
16.00-16.10 Saana Svärd: “Opening remarks”
16.10-16.40 Keynote by Niek Veldhuis: “Changing the Business of Assyriology: Data and Data Analysis”
Session 1: Creating and enriching text data
16.40-17.00 Jamie Novotny: “Recent Work on State Archives of Assyria online: Making the Invisible Visible”
17.00-17.20 Aleksi Sahala: “BabyFST - A Finite-State Morphological Analyser for Akkadian”
17.20-17.40 Louise Quillien & Bruno Gombert: “Open access edition of late Babylonian texts on Achemenet.com: report and perspectives”
17.40-17.55 BREAK
17.55-18.15 Aino Hätinen: “The Electronic Babylonian Literature Project: the first two years”
18.15-18.35 Mikko Luukko: "Treebanking Assyrian Royal Inscriptions"
18.35-18.55 Jakob Andersson, Seraina Nett, & Rune Rattenborg: “The Big Picture: Large-Scale Trends in the Distribution and Composition of the Cuneiform Corpus”
18.55-19.15 Émilie Page-Perron: "Open science at the CDLI: focus on collaboration and accessibility".
27th August
Session 2: Prosopographical work
15.45-16.00 Signing in to Zoom
16.00-16.20 Melanie Gross: "Prosobab: Online Prosopography of Babylonia (620-330 BCE)"
16.20-16.40 Heidi Jauhiainen & Tero Alstola: ”Neo-Assyrian Social Networks: Work in Progress”
16.40-17.00 Heather D. Baker: “PNAo: Towards a Digital Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire”
17.00-17.20 Adam Anderson & Laurie Pearce: “mārē BPS: the offspring of a prosopography project”
17.20-17.40 BREAK
Session 3: Using Text Data, Publishing and Digital Assyriology
17.40-18.00 Saana Svärd: “Meaning in Networks of Words? ‘Fear’ as a case study”
18.00-18.20 Heather D. Baker: “MTAAC: Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of Cuneiform Languages”
18.20-18.40 Alessandro Di Ludovico and Vanessa Bigot-Juloux: “The State of Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Researches using Digital and Computational Approaches”
18.40-19.00 Adam Anderson: “AI and Assyriology: Deep-Learning Ontologies for Bibliometrics in Near Eastern Studies”
Registration
The event is open to registered audience members and there will be time for audience questions. The timetable allows scholars to participate from the US and Canada as well.
Registration is free of charge and closes on August 19th. Anyone interested in the event can fill in the e-registration form: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/105983/lomake.html.