Abbreviations
Series, Periodicals, and Publishers
| AAAS |
Annales archéologiques arabes syriennes |
| ACalc |
Archeologia e Calcolatori |
| ACL |
Association for Computational Linguistics |
| ACM |
Association for Computing Machinery |
| AJA |
American Journal of Archaeology |
| AmA |
American Anthropologist |
| AnatS |
Anatolian Studies |
| AOAT |
Alter Orient und Altes Testament |
| ARET |
Archivi Reali di Ebla Testi |
| BASOR |
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research |
| BHS |
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia |
| BHQ |
Biblia Hebraica Quinta |
| BICS |
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies |
| BiOr |
Bibliotheca Orientalis |
| BZAW |
Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft |
| CAD |
Chicago Assyrian Dictionary |
| CDA |
A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian |
| CNRS |
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| CTN |
Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud |
| CUSAS |
Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology |
| DHQ |
Digital Humanities Quarterly |
| HdO |
Handbuch der Orientalistik |
| HEL |
Histoire épistémologie langage |
| HSS |
Harvard Semitic Studies |
| JAMT |
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory |
| JAOS |
Journal of the American Oriental Society |
| JAS |
Journal of Archaeological Science |
| JCS |
Journal of Cuneiform Studies |
| JMLR |
Journal of Machine Learning Research |
| JNSL |
Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages |
| JTEI |
Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative |
| MEE |
Materiali Epigrafici di Ebla |
| NEA |
Near Eastern Archaeology |
| OLA |
Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta |
| PEQ |
Palestine Exploration Quarterly |
| PIHANS |
Publications de l’Institut Historique-Archéologique Néerlandais de Stamboul |
| PLOS ONE |
Public Library of Science One |
| QuadSem |
Quaderni di Semitistica |
| RA |
Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale |
| RHR |
Revue de l’histoire des religions |
| RIMA |
The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Assyrian Periods |
| RINAP |
The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period |
| RANT |
Res Antiquae |
| ResOr |
Res Orientales |
| RSF |
Rivista di studi fenici |
| SAA |
State Archives of Assyria |
| SANER |
Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records |
| SANTAG |
SANTAG. Arbeiten und Untersuchungen zur Keilschriftkunde |
| SBL-ANEM |
Society of Biblical Literature-Ancient Near East Monographs |
| SEG |
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum |
| SEL |
Studi Epigrafici e Linguistici sul Vicino Oriente Antico |
| SMSR |
Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni |
| STT1 |
Gurney, Oliver R., and Jacob J. Finkelstein. 1957. The Sultantepe Tablets I. Occasional Publications of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara 3. London: The British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara. |
| StOrE |
Studia Orientalia Electronica |
| TEO |
La Trouvaille Épigraphique de l’Ougarit |
| UAVA |
Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie |
| UF |
Ugarit-Forschungen |
| WO |
Die Welt des Orients |
| ZA |
Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie |
Additional Shortened Forms
| AAT |
Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
| ACAWAI-CS |
Annotated Corpus of Ancient West Asian Imagery: Cylinder Seals |
| AMGG |
Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses |
| Archibab |
Archives babyloniennes (XXe–XVIIe siècles av. J.C.) |
| ARI |
Die alt- und reichsaramäischen Inschriften |
| ARIADNE |
Advanced Research Infrastructure for Archaeological Dataset Networking in Europe |
| ARMEP |
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities |
| ASOR |
American Society of Overseas Research |
| BDEG |
Banque de données des épiclèses grecques |
| BDTNS |
Base de Datos de Textos Neosumerios |
| BM |
British Museum |
| CAA |
Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology |
| CDLI |
Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative |
| CHI |
Cultural Heritage Imaging |
| CIG |
Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum |
| CIIP |
Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palestine |
| CIS |
Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum |
| CNR |
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche |
| CSIK |
Corpus of Seal Inscriptions of the Kassite period |
| CT |
Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum |
| DDD |
Dictionary of Deities and Demons |
| Dig ANES |
Digitizing and Labeling Ancient Near Eastern Seals and Sealings |
| DiyArDa |
Diyala Archaeological Database |
| DNB |
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek |
| EbDA |
Ebla Digital Archives project |
| EDCS |
Epigraphische Datenbank Clauss-Slaby |
| EDH |
Epigraphic Database Heidelberg |
| EDR |
Epigraphic Database Roma |
| EPFL |
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne |
| ETCSL |
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature |
| HASS |
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences |
| HUMOT |
Human Mobility between Oriens and Transpadana |
| IMLS |
Institute for Museum and Library Services |
| ISAW |
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World |
| KAI |
Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften |
| LACMA |
Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
| MIA |
Minneapolis Institute of Art |
| NRSV |
New Revised Standard Version |
| OIMEA |
Official Inscriptions of the Middle East in Antiquity |
| Oracc |
Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus |
| PASE |
Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England |
| PAT |
Palmyrene Aramaic Texts |
| PBE |
Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| PIR |
Prosopographia Imperii Romani |
| RAI |
Rencontre assyriologique internationale |
| RIAO |
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online project |
| RÉS |
Répertoire d’épigraphie sémitique |
| RS |
Ras Shamra |
| RSTI |
Ras Shamra Tablet Inventory |
| SAAO |
State Archives of Assyria Online |
| SBL |
Society of Biblical Literature |
| SESPOA |
Sceaux-cylindres du Proche-Orient ancien |
| TGN |
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names |
| UMR |
Unités mixtes de recherche |
| UNIL |
Université de Lausanne |
| UWDC |
University of Wisconsin’s Digital Collections |
| VAM |
Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin |
| WSRP |
West Semitic Research Project |
| WPAIP |
Wisconsin Palmyrene Aramaic Inscription Project |
CyberResearch
| AI |
Artificial Intelligence |
| ANN |
Artificial Neural Networks |
| API |
Application Programming Interface |
| APSS |
Algebraic Point Set Surface |
| bit |
binary digit |
| BRDF |
bidirectional reflectance distribution function |
| CFG |
Context-Free Grammar |
| CIDOC CRM |
Conceptual Reference Model |
| CMOS |
complementary metal-oxide semiconductor |
| CNN |
Convolutional Neural Network |
| CPU |
Central Processing Unit |
| DAM |
Digital Asset Management |
| DBMS |
Database Management System |
| DEM |
Digital Elevation Model |
| DP |
Digital Practices |
| DSL |
Domain-Specific Language |
| DTD |
Document Type Definition |
| FAIR |
Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable |
| FOAF |
Friend of a Friend |
| FoV |
Field of View |
| FRBR-OO |
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records-Object Oriented |
| GIS |
Geographic Information System |
| HAC |
Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering |
| HH |
Hemispherical Harmonics |
| HSI |
Hyperspectral Imaging |
| ID |
identifier |
| IDF |
Inverse Document Frequency |
| IR |
infrared |
| JSON |
JavaScript Object Notation |
| LCP |
Least Cost Path |
| LCPA |
Least Cost Path Analysis |
| LD |
Linked Data |
| LOD |
Linked Open Data |
| LSTO |
Lexham Systematic Theology Ontology |
| MB |
Megabytes |
| MDS |
Multidimensional Scaling |
| MLR |
Multi-Light Reflectance |
| MS |
multispectral |
| MSI |
Multispectral Imaging |
| NB |
narrow bands |
| NIR |
near-infrared |
| NLP |
Natural Language Processing |
| NLTK |
Natural Language Toolkit |
| ODD |
“One Document Does it all” |
| OHCO |
Ordered Hierarchy of Content Objects |
| OWL |
Web Ontology Language |
| PCA |
Principal Component Analysis |
| PLD |
Portable Light Dome |
| PLY |
Polygon File Format |
| PMI |
Pointwise Mutual Information |
| ppi |
pixels per inch |
| PTM |
Polynomial Texture Mapping |
| QGIS |
Quantum Geographic Information System |
| RDBMS |
Relational Database Management System |
| RDF |
Resource Description Framework |
| RDFS |
Resource Description Framework Schema |
| RGB |
Red, Green, and Blue |
| RTI |
Reflectance Transformation Imaging |
| SKOS |
Simple Knowledge Organization System |
| SfM |
Structure from Motion |
| SQL |
Structured Query Language |
| SSD |
Solid-State Drive |
| SW |
Semantic Web |
| TEI |
Text Encoding Initiative |
| TF |
Term Frequency |
| TF-IDF |
Term Frequency and Inverse Document Frequency |
| TURTLE |
Terse Resource Description Framework Triple Language |
| UI |
User Interface |
| URI |
Universal Resource Identifier |
| UTF |
Universal Character Set Transformation Format |
| UV |
Ultraviolet |
| UV/Vis |
UV-Visible spectroscopy |
| VIAF |
Virtual International Authority File |
| VIL |
Visible-Induced Infrared Luminescence |
| VIS |
Visible |
| WADM |
Web Annotation Data Model |
| XML |
Extensible Markup Language |
| XRF |
X-Ray Fluorescence |
| XSD |
XML Schema Definition |
| XSL |
Extensible Stylesheet Language |
| XSLT |
Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation |
Other
| ACAWAI-CS |
Annotated Corpus of Ancient West Asian Imagery: Cylinder Seals |
| BCE |
Before Common Era |
| CE |
Common Era |
| DH |
Digital Humanities |
| ERC |
European Research Council |
| HB |
Hebrew Bible |
| LBA |
Late Bronze Age |
| MAP |
Mapping Ancient Polytheisms—Cult Epithets as an Interface between Religious Systems and Human Agency |
| PACTOLS |
Peuples et cultures, Anthroponymes, Chronologie, Toponymes, Œuvres, Lieux et Sujets |
| SIG |
Specific Interest Group |
| TGIR |
Très grande infrastructure de recherche |