CUNE-IIIF-ORM: Towards an Internationally Image Interoperable Corpus of Cuneiform Tablets brings together an interdisciplinary consortium of ancient historians, museum curators, digital humanities and heritage experts, digitisation specialists and computer scientists from KU Leuven (KU Leuven Libraries’ Digitisation and Document Delivery department and its Imaging Lab) and Ghent University (including the research groups: Assyriology, Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, and LT3) to open up the access to diverse federal cultural, scientific and historical heritage collections of the Royal Museums of Art and History (RMAH) for scientific exploitation and social valorisation. By applying methodological approaches from diverse humanities, sciences and engineering disciplines, the multidisciplinary CUNE-IIIF-ORM team will digitally and sustainably publish the Old Babylonian cuneiform corpus at RMAH. Furthermore, the team will perform pilot studies in Natural Language Processing and Image Recognition on the cuneiform texts to understand the possibilities and the limitations of such approaches.

The Digital Ancient Near Eastern Studies (DANES) network is a consortium of scholars who study the ancient Near East and scholars from computer and data science. The DANES conferences series is one of several activities of the network, whose purpose is to establish and promote the digital and computational study of the ancient world. The conferences highlight interdisciplinary work, showcase current best practice methods, inform the community about ongoing research among its members, and introduce more students and scholars of the ancient world to innovative approaches made possible with current technological developments.