Teaching Workshop: Digital Tools for Data-Management and Record-Keeping of Ancient Near Eastern Cuneiform Documents

The workshop aims at providing theoretical and technical basic notions for cataloguing and managing archaeological and cuneiform documents (data-entry, compose and edit vector graphics images) with open-source programs. Specific case studies from the ancient Near East (4th-1st millennia BCE) will be addressed within the Lab, including cuneiform archives, archaeological sites, and materials.

Knowledge of methods for cataloguing data with Microsoft Excel (how to create a catalogue; how to quantify and elaborate data). Learning techniques of data-entry, acquisition and editing of vector graphics images with open-source programs such as GIMP, and Inkscape (compose and edit vector graphic images; create a graphic apparatus).