Deborah Anderson, a researcher in UC Berkeley’s Linguistics department and director of the Script Encoding Initiative, has been awarded a Preservation and Access Research and Development grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Universal Scripts Project will prepare twelve scripts—seven historical and five modern—for inclusion in the international Unicode standard. For scholars who work with materials in historical scripts, encoding is crucial requisite for building digital collections of transcribed texts and applying a variety of digital tools to these corpora.
Deborah presented the history of Unicode and the Script Encoding Initiative at the Bay Area Digital Humanities Meetup, hosted at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life last September.
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