The A16 digital book has served over the years as a key point of reference for the application of the UGR system. It was the “inaugural” volume in the sense that it was the first one to be considered complete, however much in a beta stage. As it turned out, in the course of the last fifteen years we “inaugurated” this book many times over.
A16 was to serve as a model for the series of digital unit books. This meant that it would be used as the testing ground for the unit books, placing them within the framework of the introductory websites I was working on, in particular the Grammar and the Introduction to the Urkesh Global Record.
This was also, for me, a testing ground in “writing” a website: there had to be a continuous, attentive, and daunting effort at keeping all websites (unit books and others) in sync. It was very much unchartered territory, something structurally different from writing a book to be printed. The concept of interplanarity became alive with a host of unexpected twists and turns.
My role within A16 was that of a series editor, the series being UGRS. The process entailed a constant give and take with the material prepared by the original authors, and so the whole issue of authorship loomed large, given the great number of participants in the entire enterprise.
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