Making Assyrian texts available to the public
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چکیده
In recent years several initiatives have been launched aiming at establishing digital infrastructures for scholars in the humanities. DIGHUMLAB 1 is a Danish distributed research infrastructure that besides offering deposit of digital resources also facilitates research in terms of LT tools usage and browsing data by selection of annotated metadata (Henriksen et al., 2014). This paper concerns the considerations and actions taken in connection with upload and representation of an ancient dataset annotated with standard compliant metadata.
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