System domains

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The system

Cybernetica Mesopotamica is a system of websites that provide extensive substantive data about specific aspects of Syro-Mesopotamian civilization, and implements special methodological objectives with regard to the use of the digital medium.

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Domains

The system deals with five major domains (highlighted in green in the chart below).

1. It proposes a website theory that may serve as a model of scholarly communication. The theory is implemented in the other four domains.
2. It documents primary data in three categories or sub-domains: archaeological sites as the places where the primary data are recovered and
3. texts as a privileged category of artifacts that have been brought to light by archaeology and give us the most direct evidence of the self-awareness of the ancients.
4. Finally, it deals with the scholarship tradition in the field, which has, over the last two centuries, succeded in constructing a unified vision out of the fragments recovered.

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Hubs

This website serves as a hub for the entire system, which in turn includes five major hubs corresponding to the five domains.

In the following chart, the domains are highlighted in green, and the hubs in yellow.

For a detailed view of the clusters governed by these hubs see Clusters.