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Data and Service Center for the Humanities

• Switzerland
• Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Data Repository
• Running
• Humanities and Social Sciences

The DaSCH is a data and service centre for research data in the humanities, which the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences has been operating since 2017 as a national institution in cooperation with the University of Basel. The central coordination office is located at the Digital Humanities Lab of the University of Basel under the direction of Prof. Dr. Lukas Rosenthaler. For the first…

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Edition literarischer Keilschrifttexte aus Assur

• Germany
• Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
• Collection
• Running

For some 3,500 years (34th century BC to 1st century AD), cuneiform served to document, preserve and disseminate intellectual content. The capacity for great cultural and political achievement found among the empires of the Near East was closely bound to the development and use of this medium.

Characteristic to the cultures of the ancient Near East is thus not in the least the extraordinary…

AGATE-ID: PR2

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