Adopt-A-Character Grant to Support Maya Inscriptional Hieroglyphs

Image from Maya site of Yaxchilan, MexicoThe Adopt-a-Character Program
<https://www.unicode.org/consortium/adopt-a-character.html> is awarding
the third in a series of grants to support the encoding of Maya
hieroglyphs and their study by researchers. This grant is a continuation
of earlier AAC-funded efforts to incorporate information from Maya
codices into a multidimensional database. The work in 2019 will focus on
hieroglyphs inscribed on monuments, and will fund work to advance the
understanding of the corpus of inscriptional hieroglyphs by including
this dataset in the multidimensional database developed for the Maya
script. This work will further understanding of an appropriate encoding
model for these complex hieroglyphs and will also provide support for
new research work on the Maya script through the updated database.

The work will be led by Dr. Gabrielle Vail (Research Labs of
Archaeology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Anthropology
Program, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg) under the
direction of Dr. Deborah Anderson (SEI, UC Berkeley).

The image included in this announcement is text from a lintel from the
Maya site of Yaxchilan, Mexico. Photo by Gabrielle Vail.

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