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3 August 2019

Purpose and Plan for the project

by e2dubba

Wikibase Creation For Assurbanipal’s Library

Purpose

The main question I have is: What can we derive from the way Mesopotamians orgainized knowledge to better understand the way they understood how the world worked, or even, what the world was?

The two motivations for this question: 1) provide a better understanding to the organazation of information for librarians and the history of library science; and 2) develop a knowledge graph of Mesopotamian Canonical Text Metadata and Persons which will provide a platform for answering this question and others.^[By “canonical text”, I simply mean the standard works for scribal education, scholarly specification, and the non-archival documents found in Assurbanipal’s library]

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