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Introduction

The very concept of authorship has been already well described by Prof. Giorgio Buccellati in the parent website Cybernetica Mesopotamica; nevertheless, this page will present to the reader how this concept is perceived and technically embodied in the eLibrary itself.

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The two concepts/definitions of “authorship”

The concept of authorship implies two crucial aspects:

1. Responsability: the authors of a page in this book are responsible for both the content and the format of the data;
2. Credits: the contributors, at any level, to the eLibrary are duly credited for the pages they authored.

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Tasks & responsabilities

The contributors to the eLibrary are responsible at different levels, acoording to the different tasks they are assigned.

In the following sub-sections the main roles and tasks are briefly described, listing also the people who contributed over the time.

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Main Editor

The main editor is responsible for the content and organization of the whole eLibrary.

He/she is also usually the main contributor to the bibliographical entries in Section B: Material.

Here are listed the main editors of the eLibrary:

1. working on the previous format of the eLibrary, as a section incorporated in the Urkesh website (“Version 1”):
   • (2002-2010): Giorgio Buccellati;
   • (2011-2013): Stefania Ermidoro;
   • (2013-2017): Laerke Recht;
2. working on the current version of the eLibrary, as a separated and independent book (“Version 2”):
   • (2018-present): Marco De Pietri.

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Contributors

Other contributors, with different tasks, helped in develop and update the eLibrary:

• (2024-present): Saikat Mukherjee (supervised by Marco De Pietri) started converting the “old versions” (HTML) of the sections “Article (staff)” and “Urkesh specific” to the new DABI versions.

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Reviewers

The reviewers are responsible for check the content of pages, to guarantee the correctness of the data and the proper funtioning of the links:

• (2023-2024): Mary Stancavage, with the help of the UCLA students Ronnida Cheko and Hoorigh Sarkissian checked and reviewed the content of the index of Topics.

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Webmaster

The webmaster is responsible for the correct functioning of the programs running the eLibrary:

• (2018-present): Bernardo Forni wrote the MID and DABI programs which are used to create the bibliographical entries displayed in the present website in the Markdown language.