| PR-253360-17 | Preservation and Access: Research and Development | University of California, Berkeley | Universal Scripts Project | 4/1/2017 - 9/30/2020 | $274,840.00 | Deborah | Winthrop | Anderson | | | | University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley | CA | 94704-5940 | USA | 2016 | Languages, General | Research and Development | Preservation and Access | 207130 | 67710 | 207130 | 67710 | The
preparation of nine scripts—four modern and five historical—for inclusion in the international
Unicode standard, to aid research using materials in historical scripts and
promote communication in minority language communities.
Although computer and mobile
users in many parts of the world can now communicate in hundreds of languages by
using their own native writing system, there are still linguistic minority
groups, and users of historical writing systems, who cannot. This is because
the letters and symbols of these scripts are not yet part of the international
character encoding standard, known as Unicode. More than one hundred and fifty
eligible scripts are not yet included in Unicode, which directly affects
humanities research, the creation of the global digital repository of
humankind's literary and cultural heritage and, for users of modern scripts,
basic communication. This project will fund proposals for four modern and five
historical scripts for inclusion in the standard, and pave the way for
electronic communication in (and about) scripts by scholars and the use. The
project will also develop and make available fonts for the non-Latin scripts of
ancient Italy, in order to aid scholars. |