ETCSL: the pilot project, 1997

A pilot project, funded by a pump-priming grant from the University of Oxford's Research and Equipment Committee, ran from January to September 1997. The pilot employed a full-time postdoctoral researcher, Dr Eleanor Robson, under the direction of Dr Jeremy Black. The primary aims of the pilot project were:

to establish the extent of the Sumerian literary corpus and to collect complete source and publication information on each composition;
to investigate and devise suitable technical procedures and format for publication of the corpus;
to establish international collaboration, and the sharing of material and expertise, with other electronic text corpora and Sumerian projects, in particular with the universities of Chicago and Philadelphia;
to produce specimen text and a publicly accessible pilot website.

The pilot project largely fulfilled its aims and was able to attract funding from the Leverhulme Trust for the main project, which began in November 1997.

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