| PR-268710-20 | Preservation and Access: Research and Development | University of California, Berkeley | Universal Scripts Project | 3/1/2020 - 11/30/2023 | $306,370.00 | Deborah | Winthrop | Anderson | | | | University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley | CA | 94704-5940 | USA | 2019 | Linguistics | Research and Development | Preservation and Access | 239370 | 67000 | 235910 | 67000 | The preparation of eight scripts—six historical
and two modern—for inclusion in the international Unicode standard, to aid
research using materials in historical scripts and to 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 thirty
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 two modern and six
historical scripts (or major script additions) for inclusion in the standard,
and pave the way for electronic communication in (and about) scripts by scholars
and other user communities. |