Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative

Co-Principal Investigator from 2016 and Co-Director since 2020 of the open catalogue of the world's cuneiform artefacts, with partners in Oxford, Jena and York.

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
  • Website: cdli.earth
  • Role: Co-Director since 2020; Co-Principal Investigator 2016–2020; contributor since 2011
  • Partners: University of Oxford, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (Jena), University of York

The CDLI catalogues, images and transliterates the world’s cuneiform artefacts, some 400,000 to date, and publishes them openly with an API, data dumps and a knowledge graph. As Co-Director, Émilie is responsible for the platform, data standards and access.

She is Editor in Chief of the Cuneiform Digital Library Notes and a member of the editorial board of the Cuneiform Digital Library Journal and Bulletin. She has administered and mentored the CDLI’s Google Summer of Code programme since 2018.

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