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Examples of recording formats used by field workers from the 1890s to the present. Photo by Kevin Atkins, courtesy of Indiana University.
Examples of recording formats used by field workers from the 1890s to the present. Photo by Kevin Atkins, courtesy of Indiana University.
Sample of Meroitic script provided by Michael Everson. Cursive Meroitic is based on Egyptian Demotic script and was one of the two historic scripts used in the Kingdom of Meroë, which included parts of present-day Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia. The script was used from the third century B.C.E. until the fourth century C.E. The values of the letters are known, but the language is not, except for names and a few other words. Courtesy Michael Everson.
Sample of Meroitic script provided by Michael Everson. Cursive Meroitic is based on Egyptian Demotic script and was one of the two historic scripts used in the Kingdom of Meroë, which included parts of present-day Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia. The script was used from the third century B.C.E. until the fourth century C.E. The values of the letters are known, but the language is not, except for names and a few other words. Courtesy Michael Everson.
Preservation and Access
Grant Program
Research and Development
Research and Development grants support projects that advance the nation’s capacity to preserve and provide access to humanities resources. These projects cover an array of activities, including devising more effective physical methods of preserving humanities collections; developing new procedures to create reference works; and establishing standards or best practices for the use of digital technology.
Guidelines URL: www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/PARD.html
Projects
PA-51158, Indiana University, Bloomington:
Digital Preservation and Access for Global Audio Heritage.
A grant to Indiana University in 2005 supported the creation of open-source software tools to streamline the process of converting sound recordings from an analog to a digital format. The software will also enable technicians to rank audio collections in terms of their current level of deterioration and the future risk to their preservation.
Project URL: www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/sounddirections/
PR-50004, University of California, Berkeley:
Universal Scripts Project.
A grant to the University of California, Berkeley, in 2007 supported the development of a single set of international characters (Unicode) that makes possible the digital representation of textual materials using fifteen historic scripts and minority languages, helping to ensure that written cultural and historical resources in these languages will be accessible to scholars and others over the long term.
Project URL: www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei/index.html