ePSD2 News

History

A cumulative list of changes made to words and word IDs is available on the OID History page [/epsd2/oid-history.html]

2.7.2, 2024-08-31

ePSD2 subprojects cleaned up to remove validation and lemmatization errors.

2.7.1, 2024-07-31

ePSD 2.7.1 is the first in a series of incremental updates to ePSD 2.7 which will lead to a 2.8 release in December 2024. Since the 2.7 release in December 2022, Oracc has had upgrades to grapheme validation (GDL/GVL) and the pager (P4) and these upgrades require many small technical changes to ePSD2. The following sequence and timeline is planned for 2024:

2.7.1 [July]: update all glossaries for ePSD2 and related projects to pass GDL/GVL validation; rebuild ePSD2 with essential functionality to work with P4 on oracc.museum.upenn.edu.
2.7.2 [August]: update all corpora for ePSD2 and related projects to pass GDL/GVL validation; in 2.7.1 some texts will fail to build properly because of grapheme validation errors. All such errors will be eliminated for 2.7.2.
2.7.3 [September]: align all ePSD2 subprojects and ePSD2-related projects with main ePSD2 glossaries. before 2.7.3 some references will fail to be included in the main ePSD2 dataset because of alignment issues. All alignment issues will be resolved for 2.7.3.
2.7.4 [October]: apply all queued fixes to the main ePSD2 glossaries and update the alignment of all corpora and glossaries. Ensure ePSD catalogue and other additional facets of ePSD such as issl build correctly.
2.7.5 [September-November]: induct additional available corpus material into ePSD2, e.g., additions from CDLI and other sources.
2.8 [December]: full new release of ePSD2 planned for 2024-12-21.

2.7, 2022-12-21

153 new words (many from admin/oakk); 179 changes to entries in total.
Review of admin/oakk (Old Akkadian) completed (Philip Jones)
Integration of eISL: A Corpus of First Millennium Emesal Liturgies [/eisl]
Additional OB Emesal via /obel [/obel]
Sumerian from RIBO inducted into ePSD
Further sallies in the battle against emesal words tagged as emegir and vice versa
Updates to epsd2/catalogue
Improvements to alignment validation
Bug fixes affecting phrases and lexical data

2.6, 2022-06-21

142 changes to entries including 72 new words
Reworked epsd2/catalogue [/epsd2/catalogue] now tracks almost 155,000 Sumerian or bilingual texts
New alignment validation implemented to eliminate mismatches between subprojects/partner projects and main ePSD glossaries
Two Women B added to DSSt [/dsst] (courtesy Jana Matuszak)
Several thousand admin texts harvested from CDLI, lemmatized, and reviewed (Veldhuis/Jones/Tinney)
admin/names Ur III normalizations (Niek Veldhuis)
admin/oakk girsu and adab review completed (Philip Jones)
admin/ebla removed
Yet more separation of Emegir and Emesal forms; additions to Ershahungas via BLMS
Inclusion of OB liturgical texts from http://oracc.org/obel [http://oracc.org/obel]; most of these are much improved revisions of texts that were formerly in epsd2/praxis/liturgy

2.5, 2021-12-21

76 new words
Review of admin/ed12 Nisaba 25 texts
Review of admin/ed3a completed
Review of admin/ed3b completed (Philip Jones)
Additions to literary, admin/ur3, admin/oldbab (Niek Veldhuis)
Improved separation of Emegir and Emesal forms

2.4, 2021-06-21

Literary Disputes and Dialogs are now indexed from DSSt [http://oracc.org/dsst]
Most ePSD data now downloadable as JSON--see the ePSD2 JSON page [/epsd2/json]
Over 5000 texts (mostly Ur III) imported from BDTNS [http://bdtns.filol.csic.es/] (Niek Veldhuis)
All 3rd Millennium/OB god lists now included
Additions to admin/ed3a
Further review of admin/ed3b (Philip Jones)
ongoing additions and improvements to admin/names and admin subcorpora

2.3, 2021-03-21

fixes and improvements to search including c: and b: prefixes, and functioning search by SIGN
integrate searching page into main ePSD portal
additions to earlylit, literary (Niek Veldhuis)
first stage of review of admin/ed3a [EDATS]
ed3b review complete and most common unlemmatized forms resolved (Philip Jones)
additions to admin/ur3 (Niek Veldhuis)
add about 600 royal inscriptions to epsd2/royal based on ETCSRI and CDLI
ongoing additions and improvements to admin/names and admin subcorpora

2.2, 2020-12-21

epsd2/earlylit lemmatised and augmented, additions to epsd2/literary (Niek Veldhuis)
epsd2/admin/names redone with more names normalized, especially Drehem names by John Carnahan
review of unlemmatized forms in admin subcorpora to lemmatize several thousand additional instances
over 10000 additional proper noun forms added to epsd2/admin/names
review of epsd2/admin/lagash2 (Niek Veldhuis)
admin corpora updated to include additional texts from CDLI (Niek Veldhuis)

2.1, 2020-06-21

For more details on updates in 2.1 see the build-by-build descriptions below. Highlights include:

over 10,000 more lemmatized instances
major alignment improvements between subprojects and main glossary fixing tens of thousands of phrasal instances
greater consistency between ePSD2 and OGSL [http://oracc.org/ogsl]
Edubba R added to literary (Niek Veldhuis)
admin/names glossary and proper noun colourization in admin subcorpora
bases and senses sorted by frequency (most common at top)

2.1 RC3, 2020-06-12

new edition of Edubba R in literary (Niek Veldhuis)
do initial lemmatization of proper nouns in epsd2/praxis/incantations resulting in about 1,100 additional lemmatized instances
do initial lemmatization of proper nouns in epsd2/royal resulting in about 6,000 additional lemmatized instances
import new data from dcclt and etcsri proper noun glossaries
add just over 600 forms to ur3/sux.glo resulting in about 4000 additional lemmatized instances
Resolve many duplicates in epsd2/names
fix a few score semantic/phonetic determatives
all admin corpora now do colourization of proper nouns
fix cuneiform display bug which affected qualified readings--just need to cuneify the qualifiers
Fix blank forms in, e.g., http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/epsd2/xff/o0027922 (John Halloran report)

2.1 RC2, 2020-06-04

Some duplicates removed from main glossary
Audit bases with qualifiers like kinₓ(|ŠE.KIN|) and enforce consistency with OGSL, adding/modifying base values as necessary
Ongoing updates to admin by Veldhuis and Jones, and to literary by Veldhuis

2.1 RC1, 2020-05-13

fix bugs importing PSUs from subprojects into epsd2 main listing
fix bugs importing legitimate but partially matching subproject entries into epsd2 main listing
Sort senses by original order in glossaries instead of sorting them alphabetically
Sort bases by frequency--most frequent at top
Experimental admin/names glossary included but destined for major revision in future version

2.0.1 RC1 (experimental), 2020-02-11

Experimental release to test the new admin/names glossary and NN tagging in admin/*

2.0, 2020-01-29

align all glossaries with main epsd2
remove spurious translations, re-align everything until there are no mis-alignments anywhere
improve content and formatting of OID footer

2.0 RC2, 2020-01-27

clean up glossaries and get all projects lemmatizing cleanly against ePSD2

2.0 RC1, 2020-01-24

implement simple merge for epsd2/names to list, e.g., Enkik and Enki together in epsd2
tweak location of OIDs
no longer translate J to Ŋ in search keys (general Oracc change, not only epsd2)
compound xrefs should now be links

2.0 RC1, 2020-01-23

Begin pre-builds for ePSD 2.0
Initial mapping experiment in epsd2/names
try to restore compound x-refs again
Test inclusion of persistent ID in summary

Beta 7, 2020-01-22

base audit of main epsd2 glossary to remove almost 400 of the most egregious base issues
restore cross-references from compound constituents to compound verbs
fix XFF (broken in last few RCs)
near-final fixes to ur3 and ed3b before public 2.0

Beta 7 RC5, 2020-01-20

widespread X-form fixing in admin corpora

Beta 7 RC4, 2020-01-16

Over 13,000 additional proper nouns added to ur3/names
Various lemmatization improvements to numbers and words in ur3
Ongoing Phil Jones work on ed3b

Beta 7 RC3, 2020-01-13

admin/u3adm renamed admin/ur3
admin/ur3leg and admin/ur3let moved into admin/ur3 and removed as separate projects
year names now tagged in ur3 corpus, something over 55,000 of them
Tinney/Veldhuis work on disambiguation in admin ur3.atf
Ongoing updates to ed3b by Jones

Beta 7 RC2, 2020-01-03

Niek Veldhuis's review of Ur III admin glossary and corpus is complete!

Beta 7 RC1, 2019-11-26

Beginning of the sequence that will result in ePSD 2.0--B7 will be the last Beta
All epsd2 subprojects and related projects are now aligned with the main glossary
Ongoing work since B6 on Ur III, ED IIIb and elsewhere

Beta 6, 2019-09-04

UET 6 integrated into epsd2/literary; this is a revised version of the pioneering work done by Jeremie Peterson for the Ur Online Project
Sample corpus of Old Babylonian liturgical texts now included in epsd2/praxis/liturgy; needs further work
Over a dozen new literary and liturgical texts added by Niek Veldhuis
Ongoing updates to admin by Veldhuis and Philip Jones
Lexical Akkadian information now inducted from DCCLT
Pronunciation glosses in bases now treated much more consistently
Over 100 duplicates removed from main glossary
Oracc IDs used internally by ePSD2 in preparation and infrastructure improvements to support change-tracking (not yet in use in this Beta
Articles now have functional implementation of links in left outline pane to support jumping around in longer articles

Beta 6 RC8, 2019-08-29

improved build procedure for epsd2/admin/* subprojects creates 00lib/approved.lst from source ATF before building project
epsd2/literary/uet6 work ongoing
epsd2/praxis/liturgy much improved but still in need of review
ongoing updates to admin and literary

Beta 6 RC7, 2019-07-26

Sub-corpora laid out as a table on home page by Niek Veldhuis
epsd2/praxis/liturgy wrangled into initial usable state by Steve Tinney

Beta 6 RC6, 2019-07-25

First cut at including Akkadian information from DCCLT
Ongoing updates to ed3b and u3adm and some additional literary by Niek Veldhuis

Beta 6 RC5, 2019-07-22

Fix build of u3adm which was broken in B6 RC4
Ongoing updates to ed3b and u3adm

Beta 6 RC4, 2019-07-05

Fix "Malformed OID" bug in sub-project glossaries
Eliminate over 100 duplicates in main glossary and create several additional emesal forms in epsd2/emesal
Improve preferred-bases (not yet displayed but used for developmental print version)
Ongoing updates to ed3b and u3adm

Beta 6 RC3, 2019-06-15

Fix about 300 missing + signs from phonetic glosses in bases so they make their way into the Pronunciation Data
Fix a build bug which broke OIDs in epsd2 subprojects
Fill in BUILD info in home.xml from news.xml so they won't accidentally out of sync any more
Ongoing updates in glossary and admin corpora

Beta 6 RC2, 2019-06-10

Ongoing updates in glossary and admin corpora
Build subsidiary glossaries in epsd2/names
Have another go at article outline jump links

Beta 6 RC1, 2019-06-04

The content for this release is the same as Beta 5; the difference is that internally OIDs are now used for the dictionary articles which means that links like http://build-oracc.museum.upenn.edu/epsd2/o0023086 work. Don't tell anyone, though, because the OIDs are not stable yet, so they shouldn't be used outside of the ePSD2 universe.

Beta 5, 2019-05-20

All admin texts now collected into a new umbrella corpus and glossary [/epsd2/admin]
Initial implementation of epsd2 catalogue
Various improvements to Pronunciation Data section
Transliteration index in epsd1-style matrix now indexes bases rather than forms and renamed to 'Bases' with 'B' in banner line
Improvements to Signs index in matrix
list of homographs added to matrix
Persistent Oracc IDs (OIDs) closer to being usable
ongoing improvements to admin corpora by Niek Veldhuis, Dan Patterson and Phil Jones
Other fixes as listed under Release Candidates below

Beta 5 RC8, 2019-05-19

Fix phrases in forms tables
Fix phrasal forms so continuations work properly among other things

Beta 5 RC7, 2019-05-18

Fix a ru in epsd2/royal; needs review in other projects
Fix rendering bug cuneiform for numbers with qualifiers (e.g., those with ₓ-index)
Compute "preferred base" for each headword using stats on occurrences of bases and their alignment with the shape of the Citation Form
Reference bases for compound verbs are now generated from preferred bases
Even more work on getting Pronunciation Data right

Beta 5 RC6, 2019-05-16

More work on getting Pronunciation Data right
Minor formatting improvements in Pronunciation Data

Beta 5 RC5, 2019-05-15

Redo implementation of xff and fix sort
Restrict Pronunciation data to non-implied instances with a pronunciation column
fix bug in generation of signnames-homographs list in epsd1-style matrix

Beta 5 RC4, 2019-05-14

Bases with phonetic determinatives and continuation graphemes now added to Pronunciation Data section of articles
Transliteration index in epsd1-style matrix now indexes bases rather than forms and renamed to 'Bases' with 'B' in banner line
Improvements to Signs index in matrix
list of homographs added to matrix
remove head tag from bases index which had caused spurious additional bases to appear
fix epsd2 signlist to remove spurious items from "Independent" view, improve categorization of initial/medial/final, and fix sort order

Beta 5 RC3, 2019-05-12

Complete review/fix of sign-name fields in lexical texts means many more Pronunciation Data refs
Oracc IDs (OIDs) now found for all sign names in lex sign names field
epsd2/names and epsd2/emesal now included in Oracc IDs (OIDs)
ongoing improvements to admin corpora by Niek Veldhuis, Dan Patterson and Phil Jones

Beta 5 RC2, 2019-04-28

All admin texts now collected into a new umbrella corpus and glossary [/epsd2/admin]
Experimental ED I-II corpus [/epsd2/admin/ed12]
Fix bug which allowed all 'x' to be spuriously lemmatized as words

Beta 5 RC1, 2019-04-22

Bug fixes to import of @parts and @forms so more data is inducted from the 15 subprojects
fix proxy sig bug which was dropping many sigs esp from epsd2/royal in Beta 4
Ongoing updates to admin corpora and main glossary
Initial implementation of epsd2 catalogue

Beta 4, 2019-02-20

ePSD now has a signlist with references to dictionary articles
ePSD1-style browsable views of data are now available
the Index to the Sumerian Secondary Literature is now integrated into ePSD2
for verbs that have prefixes a clickable list of attested prefixes is given before senses in the article
Switch to supergenre ELA/LIT/LEX/STL in catalogue--this will be documented in portal pages in a future Beta but for now:

ELA = Economic, Legal and Administrative
LIT = Literary, including royal inscriptions
LEX = Lexical
STL = Scientific and Technical Literature -- magic, medicine, etc.

Infrastructure improvements for more robust build and install

Beta 4 RC6, 2019-02-17

ePSD2 signlist functional (and experimentally using persistent IDs)
epsd2/issl now works
Ongoing updates to lit, admin corpora and main glossary

Beta 4 RC5, 2019-02-12

ePSD2 signlist debut
Switch to ISSL that is integrated with ePSD2
Ongoing updates to lit, admin corpora and main glossary

Beta 4 RC4, 2019-02-02

Work on prefixes; also, epsd2 broke libxml2 again, so new strategy for IDs
Ongoing updates to lit, admin corpora and main glossary

Beta 4 RC3, 2019-02-02

Verbs now have prefixes given in article
Ongoing updates to lit, admin corpora and main glossary

Beta 4 RC2, 2019-01-16

First cut at ePSD2 version of ePSD1 TOC matrix
Additions to epsd2/literary corpus by Niek Veldhuis
Ongoing updates to admin corpora and main glossary

Beta 4 RC1, 2019-01-12

Ongoing updates to admin corpora and main glossary

Beta 3, 2018-10-23

See news under Beta 3 Release Candidates for the most important additions and improvements. The most significant thing is the alignment of epsd2/royal, epsd2/praxis and blms glossaries which has greatly reduced the number of duplicate entries in ePSD2.

Beta 3 RC6

blms and praxis/incantations fully aligned with epsd2 main (emesal and names not quite)
ongoing improvements in admin/u3adm, admin/lagash2, admin/ed3b

Beta 3 RC5

credits page now has links thanks to Niek Veldhuis
epsd2/royal fully aligned with epsd2
epsd2/admin/u3leg and epsd2/admin/u3let fully aligned with epsd2

Beta 3 RC4

fix bug in collo matching POS-only forms
fix bug in lem-simplify which caused u3adm lem errors

Beta 3 RC3

support n in @collo
fix bug in lemmatizer RANK support

Beta 3 RC2

augment admin/lagash2 glossary from admin/u3adm

Beta 3, Release Candidate 1

full build functional on new dev machine
fix NULL project in signatures
implement ngrammer predicate <!vpr> for e2 du2-a in epsd2
fix lemm-data generation to ensure frequencies are included and integrate into build
more improvements on lex data aesthetics--strip POS in phrase titles
BLMS lemmatizes cleanly against epsd2
document @collo and ngrammer in main Oracc doco
create new help files for people working on admin texts

Beta 2, 2018-09-07

Major improvements include the inclusion of lexical data in the body of articles (see, e.g., a[arm], bappir[~beer]); marking of Emesal words by (ES); the ability to search the ePSD2 lemmatized corpus (search starting from /epsd2/pager); and bug-fixes for hiliting target words when clicking through to instances list and on into the reference-in-context, and for arriving at the wrong word when clicking on a summary after searching the glossary.

lex data now uses formatted transliteration in refs (e.g., ab[window]

Beta 2 RC4

home page now uses relative URLs so different installations link to the proper resources
(ES) now omitted from header and just put in summary
fix bug that resulted in some phrases instances not propagating from sub-projects to espd2
/epsd2/pager now supports searching the lemmatized texts
clicking from instance list to instance-in-context now hilites word in context

Beta 2 RC3

fixes the most serious interface bug, which resulted in the wrong entries being displayed after a search in some circumstances
forms table support is improved
instances from proper nouns are now included in top-level epsd2
Emesal words and forms are now indicated by (ES).

Beta 2 RC2

improved support for the inclusion of lexical data

Beta 2 RC1

First version of inclusion of lexical data in body of articles