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| 1 | +# Attribution, Data Sources & Contact |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +**Glossa-Lab** is an open-source AI-assisted research platform for the computational |
| 4 | +analysis of ancient and undeciphered writing systems. This project depends on the |
| 5 | +work of many scholars and data providers whose contributions we are committed to |
| 6 | +crediting accurately. |
| 7 | + |
| 8 | +--- |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +## If a citation or credit is missing — contact us immediately |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +If you are a researcher, data provider, or rights-holder and you believe your work |
| 13 | +has been used without proper attribution, or if you have any concern about how your |
| 14 | +material appears in this project: |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +**Please contact Tristen Kyle Pierson directly:** |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +> **Email:** tpierson@bitconcepts.tech |
| 19 | +> **Subject line:** "Attribution concern — Glossa-Lab" |
| 20 | +
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| 21 | +We treat attribution concerns as urgent. You will receive a response within 48 hours. |
| 22 | +If the concern is valid, we will correct the attribution, update the repository, and |
| 23 | +update any published outputs immediately. |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +You may also open a GitHub issue at: |
| 26 | +https://github.com/BitConcepts/glossa-lab/issues |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +--- |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +## Primary data sources |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +All data sources used in this project are documented in detail in |
| 33 | +[CITATIONS.md](./CITATIONS.md). Key sources include: |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +| Source | Authors | License | Used for | |
| 36 | +|--------|---------|---------|---------| |
| 37 | +| Holdat LLC Indus Corpus v3 | Miller 2025 | Proprietary — statistical derivatives only, no raw data redistributed | Primary inscription corpus | |
| 38 | +| Mahadevan 1977 (M77) | Iravatham Mahadevan | Public domain (ASI / Govt. of India) | Sign numbering (M001–M397) | |
| 39 | +| DEDR | Burrow & Emeneau 1984 | © Clarendon Press — reference use | Dravidian etymological evidence | |
| 40 | +| Parpola 1994 / 2010 | Asko Parpola | © CUP / open conference paper | Decipherment framework, phoneme map | |
| 41 | +| ePSD2 | Tinney et al. / Penn | CC BY-SA | Sumerian/Akkadian name corpus | |
| 42 | +| CDLI | Englund et al. | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 | Bibliographic reference only (no data committed) | |
| 43 | +| CISI Vols 1–3 | Joshi, Shah, Parpola et al. | © Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia | Reference only (no data redistributed) | |
| 44 | +| Wells 2006 / 2015 | Bryan K. Wells | Open access / © Archaeopress | Sign list cross-reference | |
| 45 | +| Fuls 2022/2023 | Andreas Fuls | © independently published | Sign catalog cross-reference | |
| 46 | +| ICIT | Wells & Fuls | Restricted (TU Berlin) | API reference; no data committed | |
| 47 | +| Nair 2026 | Ashish Nair | CC BY (arXiv) | Independent replication study cited | |
| 48 | +| Laursen 2010 | Steffen Terp Laursen | © Wiley / AAE | Gulf seal catalog, fish-sign validation | |
| 49 | +| Crawford 2001 | Harriet Crawford | © Archaeology International | Dilmun/Saar seal reference | |
| 50 | +| ePSD2 names subset | Penn Babylonian Section | CC BY-SA | Meluhhan name matching (null results) | |
| 51 | +| Tamburini 2025 | Fabio Tamburini | CC BY (Frontiers) | SA algorithm methodology reference | |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | +For the complete bibliography with BibTeX entries, license analysis, and per-file |
| 54 | +attribution, see [CITATIONS.md](./CITATIONS.md) and |
| 55 | +[research/indus/DATA_LICENSES.md](./research/indus/DATA_LICENSES.md). |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +--- |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +## License compliance summary |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | +- **Holdat LLC corpus (proprietary):** Not redistributed. Only statistical |
| 62 | + derivatives (positional frequencies, bigram counts, candidate readings) appear |
| 63 | + in outputs. |
| 64 | +- **ePSD2 (CC BY-SA):** Used only for Meluhhan name matching experiments that |
| 65 | + produced null results. Not incorporated into released research outputs. |
| 66 | + The CC BY 4.0 licence on `research/indus/` outputs is unaffected. |
| 67 | +- **CDLI (CC BY-NC-SA):** No CDLI tablet text committed to this repository. |
| 68 | + All CDLI references are bibliographic only. |
| 69 | +- **Copyrighted academic sources (CISI, Parpola 1994, Mahadevan 2003):** Used |
| 70 | + as structured analytical references (sign numbers, phoneme assignments, crosswalk |
| 71 | + mappings). No verbatim text reproduced. Defensible as academic fair use / fair |
| 72 | + dealing. |
| 73 | +- **PyMuPDF (AGPL):** Used only in standalone research scripts, not in the |
| 74 | + deployed backend. AGPL network-use provisions do not apply. |
| 75 | + |
| 76 | +Released research outputs (`research/indus/`, anchor tables, phase reports, |
| 77 | +supplemental datasets) are original analysis released under **CC BY 4.0**. |
| 78 | + |
| 79 | +--- |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | +## Acknowledgements |
| 82 | + |
| 83 | +This project is indebted to the following scholars and institutions |
| 84 | +(see [CITATIONS.md §Acknowledgements](./CITATIONS.md) for full details): |
| 85 | + |
| 86 | +Iravatham Mahadevan (1930–2018) · Asko Parpola · Bryan K. Wells · |
| 87 | +Andreas Fuls · William Miller Sr (Holdat LLC) · Ashish Nair · |
| 88 | +Steffen Terp Laursen · Harriet Crawford · Petteri Koskikallio · |
| 89 | +Roja Muthiah Research Library (Chennai) · University of Pennsylvania Museum · |
| 90 | +TIFR (Rao, Yadav, Vahia, Joglekar, Adhikari) · Tamburini (Frontiers AI) |
| 91 | + |
| 92 | +--- |
| 93 | + |
| 94 | +## How to cite Glossa-Lab |
| 95 | + |
| 96 | +```bibtex |
| 97 | +@software{glossalab2026, |
| 98 | + author = {Pierson, Tristen Kyle}, |
| 99 | + title = {Glossa-Lab: An agentic computational linguistics research platform |
| 100 | + for statistical analysis and decipherment of ancient writing systems}, |
| 101 | + year = {2026}, |
| 102 | + url = {https://github.com/BitConcepts/glossa-lab}, |
| 103 | + note = {BitConcepts LLC. MIT licence (source); CC BY 4.0 (research outputs).} |
| 104 | +} |
| 105 | +``` |
| 106 | + |
| 107 | +--- |
| 108 | + |
| 109 | +*Last reviewed: June 2026. Contact tpierson@bitconcepts.tech for any attribution |
| 110 | +concern — we respond within 48 hours.* |
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