How to Cite

Citation information for the paper, dataset, and interactive tools

The paper

Gordin, S., Kapon Epshtain, D., & Fire, M. (2025). Shaping History at Scale: Computational Diplomatics and the Diachronic Evolution of Cuneiform Tablet Morphology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

BibTeX:

@article{gordinShapingHistory2025,
  title     = {Shaping History at Scale: Computational Diplomatics and the
               Diachronic Evolution of Cuneiform Tablet Morphology},
  author    = {Gordin, Shai and Kapon Epshtain, Danielle and Fire, Michael},
  journal   = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
  year      = {2025},
  note      = {In review}
}

The dataset

Gordin, S., Kapon Epshtain, D., & Fire, M. (2024). Cuneiform tablet silhouettes and VAE encodings [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12787745

@dataset{zenodoDataset,
  author    = {Gordin, Shai and Kapon Epshtain, Danielle and Fire, Michael},
  title     = {Cuneiform tablet silhouettes and {VAE} encodings},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.12787745},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12787745}
}

The VAE model

Gordin, S., Kapon Epshtain, D., & Fire, M. (2024). Trained VAE model for cuneiform tablet morphology [Software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11668219

@software{zenodoModels,
  author    = {Gordin, Shai and Kapon Epshtain, Danielle and Fire, Michael},
  title     = {Trained {VAE} model for cuneiform tablet morphology},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.11668219},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11668219}
}

The companion website

Gordin, S., Kapon Epshtain, D., & Fire, M. (2025). Shaping History at Scale — Companion website. DigitalPasts Lab. https://digitalpasts.github.io/ShapingHistory

Contact

For questions about the analyses, data, or methods:

Shai Gordin — PI Ariel University / Open University of Israel DigitalPasts Lab

For CDLI data questions: cdli.ucla.edu