You are very welcome to reuse material from the RIAo Oracc project, as long as you abide by our project's licensing terms. Here we give some practical tips on how to do this most effectively online, but our suggestions are not meant to be prescriptive or exhaustive.
Licensing | Copying and pasting | Linking | Listing texts | Images and downloads
The RIAo default license is the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license, described here. If you abide by this license you do not need to ask permission for reusing RIAo material. If you want to reuse RIAo material under different licensing terms, please email and to make an enquiry.
You should be able to find details of copyright or licensing in the footer of the relevant page. Each project should also have a prominent link to its licensing terms, written in clear language. If you have any questions or problems about the copyright or license of an individual object, please contact the project director or send an email to and .
The easiest way to reuse text from the RIAo portal site is just to cut and paste it into your own site, remembering to attribute it to the RIAo project and (if appropriate) individual author. If you cannot find the project-specific guidance on how to give the attribution, please email and for help.
RIAo uses a system of stable URIs, or Uniform Resource Identifiers [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI], for its pages, and elements of its pages. This means that if you link to a RIAo page, or part of a RIAo page, you can be confident that the link will not break.
URIs are not always the same as the URL you see in the browser bar when you visit the RIAo corpus page. Use the instructions on citing Oracc URLs online in order to link to RIAo's corpus page most effectively.
Linking to Oracc's portal pages is very straightforward: you can just copy the URL you see in your browser. You can link to any heading or subheading too, as they all have <a> tags attached to them automatically.
One of the most exciting features of RIAo URIs is that you can make your own lists of cuneiform texts from across the RIAo corpus—that is, you can make your own ad hoc RIAo corpus.
For instance, you can create a list of transliterations for a reading class, or collect together translations of texts that share a particular word or feature. Instructions are given on the citing RIAo URLs page.
You are welcome to re-use images and downloads that have been created by the RIAo project, as long as you follow the appropriate licensing terms.
We recommend that you keep links to the originals on RIAo as well as, or instead of, hosting copies on your own site. That way you can be sure that your users have access to the most up-to-date versions.
Jamie Novotny
Jamie Novotny, 'How to reuse RIAo Material from Oracc', The Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo) Project, The RIAo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2023 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/reusingriaomaterial/]