iClay: Digitizing Cuneiform
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Date
2004
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Advances in digital technology for the graphic and textual representation of manuscripts have not, until recently, been applied to the world's oldest manuscripts, cuneiform tablets. This is due in large part both to the three-dimensional nature of cuneiform tablets and to the complexity of the cuneiform script system. The Digital Hammurabi Project and the Initiative for Cuneiform Encoding announce success in encoding Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform in Unicode while also demonstrating advances in 3D scanning and visualization of cuneiform tablets, showcased by iClay, a cross-platform, Internet-deployable, Java applet that allows for the viewing and manipulation of 2D+ images of cuneiform tablets.
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@inproceedings{:10.2312/VAST/VAST04/135-143,
booktitle = {VAST 2004: The 5th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage},
editor = {Y. Chrysanthou and K. Cain and N. Silberman and F. Niccolucci},
title = {{iClay: Digitizing Cuneiform}},
author = {Cohen, Jonathan and Duncan, Donald and Snyder, Dean and Cooper, Jerrold and Kumar, Subodh and Hahn, Daniel and Chen, Yuan and Purnomo, Budirijanto and Graettinger, John},
year = {2004},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {1811-864X},
ISBN = {3-905673-18-5},
DOI = {/10.2312/VAST/VAST04/135-143}
}