About BPS

Berkeley Prosopography Services (BPS) is exploring and developing a prototype application to build prosopographical models that support research. The prototype focuses on a corpus of cuneiform tablets transcribed into Babylonian. For more information, see the project wiki pages.

BPS was originally created at the University of California, Berkeley as a collaboration between the University's IST/Data Services group and the Near Eastern Studies Department. 

An article about the project has just been published in Berkeley's iNews: Using Natural Language Processing and Social Network Analysis to study ancient Babylonian society.

BPS is an open-source project created under the Apache 2.0 license. To find the project source code and collaborate, see the project wiki.

Project Team:

Patrick Schmitz, Semantic Services Architect, IST/Data Services, U.C. Berkeley
Dr. Laurie Pearce, Near Eastern Studies, U.C. Berkeley
Prof. Niek Veldhuis, Near Eastern Studies, U.C. Berkeley
Prof. Steve Tinney, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, U. Penn
Pierre Tchetgen, School of Information, U.C. Berkeley