[Mayan Image] <http://unicode.org/consortium/adopt-a-character.html>The
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently announced their
grants for 2020 to support 188 humanities projects across the United
States. The Unicode Consortium's project to make Maya texts accessible
to both expert and non-expert user communities through creating an
annotated digital archive is one of the funded projects. This project
will be led by principal investigator, Gabrielle Vail.
The NEH announcement included mention of the grant to the Unicode
Consortium: "Another grant will augment the international Unicode
computer text encoding standards to digitally render additional
historical and modern scripts, including Mayan ... hieroglyphs."
Thousands of texts written in a hieroglyphic script by prehispanic Maya
cultures have been preserved throughout the Maya lowlands, in museums,
and in private collections. Various media were used, including painting,
carving, and incising. Texts can be found on large-scale stone
monuments, the walls of buildings, painted polychrome vessels, codices
made from fig-bark paper, and small objects made from stone, bone, and
wood. The project will focus on building a digital archive to include
texts from Classic period monumental sites. These Classic period texts
are most often of a dynastic or political nature.
The Unicode Maya project will advance research on Classic period sites
circa 250-900 CE (Common Era) to determine the sign repertoire or
character list, a list of quadrats (specific configurations that can be
arranged and combined to form a glyphic cartouche or block), a glossary
of attested terms from the Classic period, a lexicon mapping of Classic
period terms to the Colonial period and modern Mayan dictionaries, and
finally, the creation of OpenType fonts.
About the Unicode Consortium
The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization founded to develop,
extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard and related globalization
standards.
The membership of the consortium represents a broad spectrum of
corporations and organizations, many in the computer and information
processing industry. Members include: Adobe, Apple, Emojipedia,
Facebook, Google, Government of Bangladesh, Government of Tamil Nadu,
Huawei, IBM, Microsoft, Monotype Imaging, Netflix, Sultanate of Oman
MARA, Oracle, SAP, Tamil Virtual University, The University of
California (Berkeley), plus well over a hundred Associate, Liaison, and
Individual members. For a complete member list go to
https://home.unicode.org/membership/members/.
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