As we begin the final publication phase of the Urkesh Global Record, the novelty that it entails, for which no models exist, requires even greater attention. In this perspective, I look back at my own personal role in both the field work that lies behind it and the long term publication effort that comes now to a closure. I have been developing the intellectual framework for this type of browser edition in the measure in which my own theoretical understanding of its presuppositions evolved. This process was in step with the actual implementation, in practice, of the system. This meant assembling the pieces in a coherent editorial whole, explaining the functioning of the system, writing sample discursive syntheses – in other words, designing the prototype of this new type of digital publication.
The long history of the project makes it clear how daunting the process was. It is all the more as
collaborative work
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