Re: Fw: Endangered Alphabets [OT]
How does this differ from what the Script Encoding Initiative http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei/ is already trying to do? Chris On 15/08/2011, d...@bisharat.net d...@bisharat.net wrote: Forwarding the following although it's off the list topic since the scripts it covers would include at least some that have figured in discussions here and/or the work of various list subscribers. (I personally have no connection with this project, so plz address any questions to Mr. Brookes, cc'd.) Don --Original Message-- From: Harold Schiffman Sender: lgpolicy-list-bounces+dzo=bisharat@groups.sas.upenn.edu To: Language Policy List ReplyTo: Language Policy List Subject: [lg policy] Endangered Alphabets Sent: Aug 5, 2011 09:41 Forwarded From: linga...@listserv.linguistlist.org Dear ladies and gents, I suspect--and hope--that you may be interested in my Endangered Alphabets Project, which you can find at http://www.endangeredalphabets.com. If you like it enough to want to help me move it to the next stage, I would be immensely grateful if you'd head over to http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1496420787/the-endangered-alphabets-project/ and see if anything strikes your fancy. Needless to say, I'd also be delighted to hear from you, engage in discussion, send you high-resolution photos, and so on. Tim -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Harold F. Schiffman Professor Emeritus of Dravidian Linguistics and Culture Dept. of South Asia Studies University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 Phone: (215) 898-7475 Fax: (215) 573-2138 Email: harol...@gmail.com http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/
Re: Fw: Endangered Alphabets [OT]
The SEI goal is for encoding old scripts, not much about preserving their artistic shapes. I think that the Endangered Alphabets Project is focusing on preserving the artistic typography of old scripts (but not only old scripts, this also concerns modern scripts whise evolution is oversimplifying the glyphs, or some other typographic features, for example in Arabic). So SEI wants to preserve the heritage of texts (how they were spelled, their meaning, how we can perform translations, or initiate researches about it, preserving cultural heritages that are being lost now that oral cultures are getting forgotten). It promotes the urgent need for enconding the characters, but with a minimum and sufficient set of representative glyphs. This fully goes in the goal of Unicode. The Endandered Alphabets Projects (EAP) on the opposite focuses on glyphs, the way characters were actually drawn (as found in publications or in internal working documents, and in artworks), which are not covered directly by Unicode and ISO 10646, even if the site also speaks about scripts that are still not encoded and for which the only way to preserve them is to keep their graphic form, before they are completely understood and may-be later encoded. The two projects are not duplicates, even if they may have an intersection (a small one, IMHO). Both projects are valuable for the more general focus of preserving the cultural heritages of humanity. The SEI is highly technical, the EAP is highly cultural, but both are insteresting subjects of scientific studies. -- Philippe. 2011/9/3 Christopher Fynn chris.f...@gmail.com: How does this differ from what the Script Encoding Initiative http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei/ is already trying to do? Chris
Re: Fw: Endangered Alphabets [OT]
Chris, How does this differ from what the Script Encoding Initiative http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei/ is already trying to do? It is an art project, not a script encoding project. The artist is seeking financial support for finishing a massive woodworking project with accompanying book. Rick
Fw: Endangered Alphabets [OT]
Forwarding the following although it's off the list topic since the scripts it covers would include at least some that have figured in discussions here and/or the work of various list subscribers. (I personally have no connection with this project, so plz address any questions to Mr. Brookes, cc'd.) Don --Original Message-- From: Harold Schiffman Sender: lgpolicy-list-bounces+dzo=bisharat@groups.sas.upenn.edu To: Language Policy List ReplyTo: Language Policy List Subject: [lg policy] Endangered Alphabets Sent: Aug 5, 2011 09:41 Forwarded From: linga...@listserv.linguistlist.org Dear ladies and gents, I suspect--and hope--that you may be interested in my Endangered Alphabets Project, which you can find at http://www.endangeredalphabets.com. If you like it enough to want to help me move it to the next stage, I would be immensely grateful if you'd head over to http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1496420787/the-endangered-alphabets-project/ and see if anything strikes your fancy. Needless to say, I'd also be delighted to hear from you, engage in discussion, send you high-resolution photos, and so on. Tim -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Harold F. Schiffman Professor Emeritus of Dravidian Linguistics and Culture Dept. of South Asia Studies University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 Phone: (215) 898-7475 Fax: (215) 573-2138 Email: harol...@gmail.com http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/ - ___ This message came to you by way of the lgpolicy-list mailing list lgpolicy-l...@groups.sas.upenn.edu To manage your subscription unsubscribe, or arrange digest format: https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/lgpolicy-list Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
