Authorship

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Authorship

• See Critique for a general introduction to the topic.
• Cf. also the related page on the Cybernetica Mesopotamica website, along with another page with a thorough explanation of the concept.
  
  

The concept of authorship developed in the light of two purposes, explained in the two following sub-sections:

1. as responsability;
2. as credits.

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Authorship as responsibility

Authorship is first and foremost a matter of intellectual honesty and responsability: each page is authored by a person who is entirely responsible for the format and the content of that specific section.

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Authorship as credit

Authorship is also a way to evaluate and acknowledge the participation and worthiness of each collaborator to the realization of the present website; since we believe that website is not just a mere repository of data, but an alternative way to develop a coherent digital discourse, it is important to credit people who contributed to writing a portion of this “long argument.”

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Editors

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Cluster Editor

The Main Editor, Giorgio Buccellati, is responsible for the concept and implementation of the cluster as a whole and for the design and maintenance of the individual websites.

Marco De Pietri is the Assistant Editor of the cluster.

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Hub website

Giorgio Buccellati is the author of the present hub website, with assistance from Marco De Pietri

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Thematic edition editors

To each website within the 4banks cluster, a specific Editor is assigned, occasionally working together with an Associate Editor; they are responsible for the general organization or the website and the work of the research group. Here is a list of the current editors and associate editors:

• A Critique of Archaeological Reason: Giorgio Buccellati and Laerke Recht
• Akkadian Linguistics: Giorgio Buccellati and John Hayes
• At the Origins of Politics: Marco De Pietri
• Mesopotamian Literature: Giorgio Buccellati
• Mesopotamian Art and Architecture: Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
• Mesopotamian Religion and Spirituality: Giorgio Buccellati and Jonah Lynch

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Assistant editors

The assistant editor has mostly the task of coordinating technical aspects of the companion websites he/she is assigned to, checking the internal coherence of the whole website and amending typos and other errors or mistakes (like broken links or missing pages). Here is a list of the current assistant editors:

• Akkadian Linguistics: Terry Tanaka;
• Mesopotamian Religion and Spirituality: Marco De Pietri.

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Contributors

Contributors assist the Main Editor in developing the different sections of the website. They authorship is clearly stated on each authored page, for the purposes explained above.

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Editorial board

The scholarly Editorial board is responsible for the evaluation and the review of the whole website, conceived as a proper digital publication, checking its internal coherence and verifying its scientific quality.