University of California, Los Angeles (Institute for Social Science Research)

The UCLA University Library and UCLA’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures will create the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative: Second Generation (CDLI 2). The project will migrate 450,000 legacy archival and access images and metadata from CDLI to UCLA’s Digital Library Content System, standardizing and upgrading the metadata to improve discovery and enable content archival within the California Digital Library’s Digital Preservation Repository. The project will add 7,000 digital artifacts with cuneiform inscriptions, including collections housed at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute and in the Middle East, to be scanned by the Max Planck Institute and the French Institute of the Near East. This project will ensure the long-term preservation of text inscribed on endangered ancient cuneiform tablets.