Project Team

Team

Eric Wittke built Glintstone and maintains the data model, ingestion pipeline, API, and web platform. He is responsible for decisions about schema design, source prioritization, and the trust infrastructure. Get in touch.

The scholarship behind the data

Glintstone is a federation layer. The underlying scholarship — the transliterations, lemmatizations, sign catalogs, dictionaries — was produced by hundreds of Assyriologists over decades. Each source is credited structurally in every imported record via annotation_run_id.

The projects Glintstone depends on:

• CDLI (Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative) — the largest single source of cuneiform metadata, maintained at UCLA and the Max Planck Institute
• ORACC (Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus) — project-based scholarly annotation, maintained by many research teams worldwide
• eBL (Electronic Babylonian Literature) — fragment-level scholarly editions, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• ePSD2 (electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary) — the primary Sumerian lexicon, University of Pennsylvania Museum
• OGSL (ORACC Global Sign List) — canonical sign inventory, part of the ORACC infrastructure

Glintstone does not claim credit for any of this work. If you are a scholar whose work appears here and you have concerns about how it is represented, please get in touch.

Acknowledgments

The broader cuneiform studies community — Assyriologists, digital humanists, museum curators, computer scientists working on ancient languages — is doing extraordinary work. Glintstone exists because they made their data open.