Vanessa Bigot Juloux is a PhD candidate at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes and Paris Sciences et Lettres. She has recently developed open-access guidelines for analyzing actions in TEI-XML (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1202468) and is currently co-editing a volume on violence in ancient cultures.Amy Rebecca Gansell, Ph.D. (2008), Harvard University, is Associate Professor of Art History at St. John’s University (New York). She has published computational and digital research in the American Journal of Archaeology, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, and Journal of Archaeological Science.Alessandro Di Ludovico, Ph.D. (2007), Sapienza University, Rome, is a research fellow in Near Eastern Archaeology at the same university. His research deals with perception and communication in the ancient Near East; he is co-director of “Atlante del Vicino Oriente Antico”.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsEditors’ NotePhonologyAbbreviationsList of Figures, Tables, and AppendicesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction to CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring RegionsVanessa Bigot Juloux, Amy Rebecca Gansell, and Alessandro di LudovicoPart 1: Archaeology1 A Conceptual Framework for Archaeological Data EncodingSveta Matskevich and Ilan Sharon2 Landscape Archaeology and Artificial Intelligence: the Neural Hypersurface of the Mesopotamian Urban RevolutionMarco Ramazzotti, Paolo Massimo Buscema & Giulia MassiniPart 2: Objects3 Data Description and the Integrated Study of Ancient Near Eastern Works of Art: The Potential of Cylinder SealsAlessandro di Ludovico4 A Quantitative Method for the Creation of Typologies for Qualitatively Described ObjectsShannon Martino and Matthew MartinoPart 3: Texts5 A Qualitative Approach Using Digital Analyses for the Study of Action in Narrative Texts:  KTU 1.1-6 from the Scribe ʾIlimilku of Ugarit as a Case StudyVanessa Bigot Juloux6 Network Analysis for Reproducible Research on Large Administrative Cuneiform CorporaÉmilie Pagé-Perron7 Semantic Domains in Akkadian TextsSaana Svärd, Heidi Jauhiainen, Aleksi Sahala, and Krister Lindén8 Using Quantitative Methods for Measuring Inter-Textual Relations in CuneiformM. Willis MonroePart 4: Online Publishing, Digital Archiving, and Preservation9 On the Problem of the Epigraphic Interoperability of Digitized Texts of the Mediterranean and Near Eastern Regions in First Millennium bceDoğu Kaan Eraslan10 Digital Philology in the Ras Shamra Tablet Inventory Project: Text Curation through Computational IntelligenceMiller C. Prosser11 Publishing Sumerian Literature on the Semantic WebTerhi Nurmikko-FullerMapsToponyms Related to Ancient Settlements or Regions Mentioned inGlossariesIndex of Archaeology and TypologyIndex of Authors in Bibliographical ReferencesIndex of Digital TermsIndex of History and GeographyIndex of Literature

Vanessa Bigot Juloux is a PhD candidate at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes and Paris Sciences et Lettres. She has recently developed open-access guidelines for analyzing actions in TEI-XML (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1202468) and is currently co-editing a volume on violence in ancient cultures.Amy Rebecca Gansell, Ph.D. (2008), Harvard University, is Associate Professor of Art History at St. John’s University (New York). She has published computational and digital research in the American Journal of Archaeology, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, and Journal of Archaeological Science.Alessandro Di Ludovico, Ph.D. (2007), Sapienza University, Rome, is a research fellow in Near Eastern Archaeology at the same university. His research deals with perception and communication in the ancient Near East; he is co-director of “Atlante del Vicino Oriente Antico”.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsEditors’ NotePhonologyAbbreviationsList of Figures, Tables, and AppendicesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction to CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring RegionsVanessa Bigot Juloux, Amy Rebecca Gansell, and Alessandro di LudovicoPart 1: Archaeology1 A Conceptual Framework for Archaeological Data EncodingSveta Matskevich and Ilan Sharon2 Landscape Archaeology and Artificial Intelligence: the Neural Hypersurface of the Mesopotamian Urban RevolutionMarco Ramazzotti, Paolo Massimo Buscema & Giulia MassiniPart 2: Objects3 Data Description and the Integrated Study of Ancient Near Eastern Works of Art: The Potential of Cylinder SealsAlessandro di Ludovico4 A Quantitative Method for the Creation of Typologies for Qualitatively Described ObjectsShannon Martino and Matthew MartinoPart 3: Texts5 A Qualitative Approach Using Digital Analyses for the Study of Action in Narrative Texts:  KTU 1.1-6 from the Scribe ʾIlimilku of Ugarit as a Case StudyVanessa Bigot Juloux6 Network Analysis for Reproducible Research on Large Administrative Cuneiform CorporaÉmilie Pagé-Perron7 Semantic Domains in Akkadian TextsSaana Svärd, Heidi Jauhiainen, Aleksi Sahala, and Krister Lindén8 Using Quantitative Methods for Measuring Inter-Textual Relations in CuneiformM. Willis MonroePart 4: Online Publishing, Digital Archiving, and Preservation9 On the Problem of the Epigraphic Interoperability of Digitized Texts of the Mediterranean and Near Eastern Regions in First Millennium bceDoğu Kaan Eraslan10 Digital Philology in the Ras Shamra Tablet Inventory Project: Text Curation through Computational IntelligenceMiller C. Prosser11 Publishing Sumerian Literature on the Semantic WebTerhi Nurmikko-FullerMapsToponyms Related to Ancient Settlements or Regions Mentioned inGlossariesIndex of Archaeology and TypologyIndex of Authors in Bibliographical ReferencesIndex of Digital TermsIndex of History and GeographyIndex of Literature

Vanessa Bigot Juloux is a PhD candidate at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes and Paris Sciences et Lettres. She has recently developed open-access guidelines for analyzing actions in TEI-XML (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1202468) and is currently co-editing a volume on violence in ancient cultures.Amy Rebecca Gansell, Ph.D. (2008), Harvard University, is Associate Professor of Art History at St. John’s University (New York). She has published computational and digital research in the American Journal of Archaeology, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, and Journal of Archaeological Science.Alessandro Di Ludovico, Ph.D. (2007), Sapienza University, Rome, is a research fellow in Near Eastern Archaeology at the same university. His research deals with perception and communication in the ancient Near East; he is co-director of “Atlante del Vicino Oriente Antico”.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsEditors’ NotePhonologyAbbreviationsList of Figures, Tables, and AppendicesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction to CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring RegionsVanessa Bigot Juloux, Amy Rebecca Gansell, and Alessandro di LudovicoPart 1: Archaeology1 A Conceptual Framework for Archaeological Data EncodingSveta Matskevich and Ilan Sharon2 Landscape Archaeology and Artificial Intelligence: the Neural Hypersurface of the Mesopotamian Urban RevolutionMarco Ramazzotti, Paolo Massimo Buscema & Giulia MassiniPart 2: Objects3 Data Description and the Integrated Study of Ancient Near Eastern Works of Art: The Potential of Cylinder SealsAlessandro di Ludovico4 A Quantitative Method for the Creation of Typologies for Qualitatively Described ObjectsShannon Martino and Matthew MartinoPart 3: Texts5 A Qualitative Approach Using Digital Analyses for the Study of Action in Narrative Texts:  KTU 1.1-6 from the Scribe ʾIlimilku of Ugarit as a Case StudyVanessa Bigot Juloux6 Network Analysis for Reproducible Research on Large Administrative Cuneiform CorporaÉmilie Pagé-Perron7 Semantic Domains in Akkadian TextsSaana Svärd, Heidi Jauhiainen, Aleksi Sahala, and Krister Lindén8 Using Quantitative Methods for Measuring Inter-Textual Relations in CuneiformM. Willis MonroePart 4: Online Publishing, Digital Archiving, and Preservation9 On the Problem of the Epigraphic Interoperability of Digitized Texts of the Mediterranean and Near Eastern Regions in First Millennium bceDoğu Kaan Eraslan10 Digital Philology in the Ras Shamra Tablet Inventory Project: Text Curation through Computational IntelligenceMiller C. Prosser11 Publishing Sumerian Literature on the Semantic WebTerhi Nurmikko-FullerMapsToponyms Related to Ancient Settlements or Regions Mentioned inGlossariesIndex of Archaeology and TypologyIndex of Authors in Bibliographical ReferencesIndex of Digital TermsIndex of History and GeographyIndex of Literature