TheCuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) is an internationaldigital library project aimed at putting text and images of an estimated 500,000 recoveredcuneiform tablets created from between roughly 3350 BC and the end of the pre-Christian era online.[1] Directors of the project areRobert Keith Englund fromUniversity of California, Los Angeles andJürgen Renn of theMax Planck Institute for the History of Science. Co-principal investigators are Jacob Dahl at Oxford University, Bertrand Lafront at theCentre national de la recherche scientifique, Nanterre and Émilie Pagé-Perron,University of Toronto. Preceding leadership comprised co-directorPeter Damerow (1939–2011) from theMax Planck Institute for the History of Science andPennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary leaderStephen J. Tinney who was co-principal investigator.[2] In 2004, Englund received the Richard W. Lyman Award from theNational Humanities Center for his work on the initiative.[3]
The project began in 1998,[4] but it was not until 2000 that it obtained funds for three years from theNational Endowment for the Humanities and theNational Science Foundation'sDigital Libraries Initiative.[1] This phase consisted of digitizing and progressively putting online the collections of theVorderasiatisches Museum (online in 2001), theInstitut Catholique de Paris (online in 2002), theHermitage Museum and thePhoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (online in 2003), and theUniversity of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.[1] A second phase from 2004 to 2006 was federally funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and theInstitute of Museum and Library Services, during which time it focused on new educational components and scalable access systems to the data.[1]
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