The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) is an international
digital library project aimed at putting text and images of an estimated 500,000 recovered
cuneiform
Cuneiform is a logo- syllabic script that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Middle East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. It is named for the characteristic wedg ...
tablets created from between roughly 3350 BC and the end of the pre-Christian era online.
Directors of the project are
Robert K. Englund
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of ''Hrōþ, Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory ...
from
University of California, Los Angeles and
Jürgen Renn of the
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Co-principal investigators are Jacob Dahl at Oxford University, Bertrand Lafront at the
Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Nanterre and Émilie Pagé-Perron,
University of Toronto. Preceding leadership comprised co-director
Peter Damerow (1939-2011) from the
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and
Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary leader
Stephen J. Tinney
Stephen or Steven is a common English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; h ...
who was co-principal investigator. In 2004 Englund received the Richard W. Lyman Award from the