Six places for crediting

Giorgio Buccellati – March 2025

Introduction

Given the complexity of the authorial involvement, a proper assignment of credit emerges as even more complex than in comparable publishing enterprises.

I have set up six distinct places where credit is given, seeking to allow proper visibility while at the same time avoiding an impossible crowding of the text. This approach is made possible because of the interplanarity dimension afforded by the websites. We will use Cyb-Mes 3. A16 as an example.

The masthead includes two pages: the home page, which serves as the cover page of a printed book, and the Front Matter, which serves as the title page and the copyright page of a printed book.

Together, they provide the essential authorial information, i. e., they credit the persons who bear the ultimate responsibility for the publication.

2. The authorship page

A separate page gives the names of all those who have contributed, on different levels, to the final publication of the volume.

3. The staff page

Yet another page gives the names of all the members of the excavation staff

4. Bylines

Every single observation entered by any member of the staff is given a byline that mentions both the author and the date, see for example A16.1 (the two exlamaton marks indicate that the information has been entered by a program).

5. Profiles

Clicking on the initials in the byline, one gets to the profile of the person in question, for example lR for Laura Ramos. On this page, scrolling down to “Data authored” one gets a complete list of all files and entries authored by that individual; for example, in A16 Laura Ramos authored 12,633 entries, each one of which is given in full on tghis page.

6. System credits

The authors of the design system and the programmers are mentioned in a special page of the UGR digital book.

The Urkesh Global Record (Version 1, Beta release)

System’s design: Authorship