On 3/29/2016 11:24 AM, Ken Whistler
wrote:
This is an area where anybody can play. Not to ignore the issues and complexities that Ken rightly points out, but the archive is accessible and anyone could try their hands and data mining - but would quickly discover that they would need actual manpower to curate the results to be useful. If done well, it would be a valuable resource to people who do need to know more about a character because they need to address details of character behavior and use in specific implementations. Doing it well would be non-trivial (or exceedingly so, here I fully agree with Ken), and as a result would not be something that we could expect the Consortium to take on - not if we want it to maintain its focus on encoding characters. As I pointed out, the results of scouring the document register for specific information on character background and behavior, esp. if well focused, could be re-published by the Consortium, for example as a Unicode Technical Note, (but would not be maintained by it). Such effort would be most useful not in a generalized index, but in describing certain collections of characters (for example Latin Medievalist characters) because then it would be possible to collate the information with other sources of character usage conventions for a one-stop solution for anyone in the field. A./ There are now thousands of documents, extending over 27 years |
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