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This is a copy of the daily dump of catalogue and ATF data from the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (http://cdli.ucla.edu)

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CDLI Daily Bulk Data Dump

Last update was August 2022.

The repository contains a daily dump of all public catalogue and text data from the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative.

Getting the data

Make sure you have the Git Large File Storage extentions (git-lfs) installed, see here for instructions. For installing under, say, Ubuntu, you can also use

$> curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh | sudo bash
$> sudo apt-get install git-lfs

Clone the repository

$> git clone https://github.com/cdli-gh/data

Retrieve Git LSF data:

$> cd data
$> git lfs fetch

Format

Text Data

The CDLI transliterations dump is offered in plain text UTF-8 ATF format. For more information about ATF, visit :

  http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/doc/help/editinginatf/cdliatf/index.html (Scroll down for an example).

Catalogue data

The catalogue is offered in a UTF-8 comma separated format. Most fields are thoroughly explained here:

 https://cdli.ucla.edu/?q=cdli-search-information  

Our data schema is currently being remodeled, get in touch if you would like a sneak peak!

To view a sample of the catalogue, you can use the head command on a Unix machine using this syntax, while you are in the directory where the file is stored:

head cdli_catalogue_1of2.csv

With Windows Power Shell, try

Get-Content *filename* -Head *n*

EPP cdli@ucla.edu

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