iClay: Digitizing Cuneiform

Advances in digital technology for the graphic and textual representation of manuscripts have not, until recently, been applied to the worldʼs 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. Categories and Subject Descriptors: H.3.0 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Character Encoding; H.3.7 [Digital Libraries]: Standards; I.3.3 [Picture/Image Generation]: Digitizing and scanning; I.4.1 [Digitization and Image Capture]: Scanning; I.7.2 [Document Preparation]: Standards

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: VAST
• Authors: Jonathan D. Cohen, Donald Duncan, Dean Snyder, Jerrold Cooper, Subodh Kumar, Daniel Hahn, Yuan Chen, Budirijanto Purnomo, John Graettinger
• Keywords: Cuneiform Encoding Announce, Cuneiform Script System, Cuneiform Tablets, VAST 2004, Virtual Reality